Archaeologies of touch : interfacing with haptics from electricity to computing / David Parisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parisi, David Harlan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haptic devices.

Physical Description:

xviii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of haptic interface technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics and human-computer interfaces. Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information. With haptics becoming increasingly vital to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch's Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Interface 1 The Electro tactile Machine 41

Interface 2 The Haptic 99

Interface 3 The Tongue of the Skin 151

Interface 4 Human-Machine Tactile Communication 213

Interface 5 The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517900588

1517900581

9781517900595

151790059X

OCLC:

1003701848