Abstract
FeltRadio is a portable technology for sensing WiFi through sensorial augmentation and Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS). The technology enables its wearer to sensorially engage with the radio waves and WiFi activities that have become an integrated part of our everyday lives. The sensorial engagement changes people’s experience of WiFi activities, and allows them to participate in wireless communication infrastructures in novel ways. This is both an immediately embodied activity as it is a new form of social awareness. In this paper, we briefly present the FeltRadio technology and show how it facilitates new forms of critical reflection through sensorial participation in our contemporary experience of wireless traffic.
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We would like our colleague Anna Vallgårda for her participation in the FeltRadio project. We would also like to thank Erika S. Panduro, Ian V. A. Kjær, Sara A. G. Nielsen, Sofie A. B. Calundann and Troels Madsen for their work with FeltRadio. Finally, we like to thank all our study participants.
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Fritsch, J., Grönvall, E. (2016). FeltRadio: Experiencing and Participating in WiFi Activities Through Sensorial Augmentation. In: De Angeli, A., Bannon, L., Marti, P., Bordin, S. (eds) COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_21
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