Heart on a Sleeve
We live in two worlds simultaneously - the "real" and the
virtual one, the boundary between them becoming almost
indistinguishable. The Internet gives us possibility to curate versions of ourselves
and allows anonymity. We use it every day to share the most
intimate and most ordinary parts of our lives with people that we don’t even know.
Heart on a Sleeve speculates on how our interactions would change if those two worlds, physical and digital, could merge in a form that adds another dimension to interpersonal communication.
The purpose of it is to allow users to experience the emotions of other people, and projecting their own, so they can be read.
Heart on a Sleeve speculates on how our interactions would change if those two worlds, physical and digital, could merge in a form that adds another dimension to interpersonal communication.
The purpose of it is to allow users to experience the emotions of other people, and projecting their own, so they can be read.
It’s a twin device consisting of a transmitter and a receiver.
Emotional code is recorded on a heart-shaped electronic chip
which is then read by a conductive
tattoo, calibrated to each owner’s
perception, changing colours
according to an emotion received.It could be used to projecta real feeling in the moment or a
previously saved one, that doesn’t
have to match your current mood.
It extends the boundaries of perception, being an additional
sense.
What would you use it for, and would you at all?