Resources

Below are some additional resources to help with troubleshooting, finding materials and diving into the theory of designing tech for the body. 

NYU LABS

General P-Comp Tutorials and Forums:

P-comp Supplies and Hardware:

Wearables inspiration:

Wearable Specific tutorials:

Soft Robot Tool Kit:

IoT:

Color

Hacking Existing Consumer Electronics:

PCB Service and Design:

Further Readings on Wearables, Science Fiction, and life with Robots and IoT

(some are linked via NYU library) 

  • Garments of Paradise by Susan Elizabeth Ryan. (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2014.
  • Hartman, Kate. Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments (Make: Technology on Your Time. Sebastopol, CA: Maker Media, 2014.
  • Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
  • Atwood, Margaret. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. New York: Anchor Books, 2011.
  • Wodiczko, Krzystof. Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
  •  Schwartzman, Madeline. Seeing Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2011.
  • James H. Auger, Why Robot? Speculative design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD diss., Royal College of Art, 2012. (Pages 61–91.)
  • Martina Mara and Markus Appel, “Science fiction reduces the eeriness of android robots: A field experiment,” Computers in Human Behavior, no. 48 (2015): 156–162.
  • Heather Suzanne Woods, “Asking more of Siri and Alexa: feminine persona in service of surveillance capitalism,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 35, no. 4 (2018): 334-349
  • Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, New York: Basic Books, 2011. (Chapter 6: “Love’s Labor Lost.”)
  • Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. (Chapter 4: “A Life of Metal.”)   
  • Chang Geun Oh and Jaeheung Park, “From Mechanical Metamorphosis to Empathic Interaction: A Historical Overview of Robotic Creatures,” Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 3, no. 1 (2014) 4-19.
  • Thao Phan, “Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–38. 
  • Katherine Behar, Object-Oriented Feminism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • S.M. West, M. Whittaker, and K. Crawford, “Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI,” AI Now Institute, 2019.
  • Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun, New York: Doubleday, 1957. (Science fiction)
  • Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild: And Other Stories, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. (Science fiction)
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