TouchIT

Touch IT

table of contents and some draft chapters

Introduction

• 1. elements of our hybrid existence
• 2. what’s happening now

Part I. Human Body & Mind

• 3. body
• 4. mind
• 5. body & mind
• 6. social & organisation

Part II. Objects & Things

• 7. physicality of things – properties of physicality
• 8. interacting with physical objects
• 9. hybrid devices
• 10. tools, equipment, and machines – the way in which we alter and modify the world

Part III. Space

• 11. physicality of space _ different kinds of space, physical movement within space
• 12. comprehension of space – Lynch and spaceman, ‘Quantum Soup’.
• 13. the built environment
• 14. digital augmentation of space – physical devices representation of space

Part IV. Computation & Information

• 15. representation and language
• 16. reproducibility
• 17. embodied computation
• 18. connecting physical and digital worlds

Part V. The Theory and Practice of Physicality

• 19. design lessons and advice
• 20. prototyping and tool support;
• 21. computational modelling and implementation;
• 22. theory and philosophy of physicality