{"id":194,"date":"2022-08-16T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:49:20","slug":"1-elements-of-our-hybrid-existence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/1-elements-of-our-hybrid-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"1: Elements of our hybrid existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/>In this chapter we introduce the core elements of physicality that will form the structure of the central parts of the book: the body and physiology, material artefacts and design, space and spatial arrangement, and digital artefacts and virtual physicality.\u00a0 Humans have always shaped their lives and the world from stone and metal tools, to steam and electrical machines; digital technology is in some ways just another step, but it is also different in the way that it is both ubiquitously embedded everywhere and yet also has an almost numinous or ghost-like nature.\u00a0 We will see how human\u2013computer interaction and industrial design have emerged as separate disciplines and yet are now converging in the study of these hybrid digital devices with physical form.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords: <\/span>natural world, human\u2013computer interaction, industrial design,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter we introduce the core elements of physicality that will form the structure of the central parts of the book: the body and physiology, material artefacts and design, space and spatial arrangement, and digital artefacts and virtual physicality.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}