Students Zoe Padgett and Gerardo Guerrero made this project to help bring conversations in the physical realm.

In this collaborative project with Zoe Padgett, we were interested in the small, seemingly inconsequential daily exchanges all of us take part in.

Wearable technology enables us to not only quantify these fleeting transactions, but to hold and carry them with us. Perhaps we can feel the weight of a long winded sentence, or refer back to a recent nudge. In this project, we investigated the possibility of making conversations physical and visual experiences.

By performing brief explorations of different scenarios we were able to experience some of the new social dynamics introduced by the suits. Wearers had to be very mindful of the other person when they themselves had something to say. We added a detachable piece that only allowed the suit to function when attached to the shoulder, thus functioning as a “talking stick” element further mediating the conversations.

Read more here and here.

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