{"id":33835,"date":"2020-07-09T05:04:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.net\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2021-08-04T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:17:32","slug":"human-flesh-on-your-phone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.com\/dlc\/2020\/07\/09\/human-flesh-on-your-phone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN FLESH ON YOUR\u00a0PHONE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is\u00a0it<\/h4>\n

Human flesh on your phone? Sounds crazy right! Let me take away your fears. I am not talking about real human skin on a phone. It is synthetic anthropomorphic technology on your phone case. A phone that has synthetic human skin on it.<\/p>\n

We are living in a world full of technology but there are still some differences between face-to-face communication and communication through electronic devices. One of those differences is the way of interacting with each other. Normally when we interact in real-life with each other, we use skin as interfaces, but when you are interacting through your mobile phone this isn\u2019t the case. Your phone will always stay a cold, chilly and unhuman device which makes us unable to interact in a natural way with this device.<\/p>\n

As a response to the digital world, these skin-on interfaces have been developed by Marc Teyssier. They are giving a boost to electronic devices by adding synthetic human skin to them. By adding Skin-on interfaces to existing devices, their capabilities are being increased. This product is proposed to be a new paradigm whereby electronic devices have their own artificial skin (Wray, 2019<\/a>). In addition, these artificial skins allow new forms of input gestures for users. The skin is able to track natural gestures such as pressure, multitouch touch but also complex gestures such as strokes, grabbing and stretching. The interfaces are sensitive skin-like input methods. Anthropomorphic technology is a new opportunity to enable more human interactions with our electronic devices. They will make us bond with our tech.<\/p>\n

\u201cI explore touch in human-computer interaction. When we are talking to someone face-to-face, we sometimes use touch to convey affect, emotions and more generally enrich the discourse. Now that mediated communication is performed through the devices, we [have] lost the sense of touch communication modality.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

-Explained Marc Teyssier in an e-mail. (<\/em>Stanley, Help, I Can\u2019t Unsee These Faux-Flesh Phone Cases, 2019<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why it\u2019s\u00a0Cool<\/h4>\n