“Affective geometry: time as a tactile language”
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- Affective geometry: time as a tactile language
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Geometry is an invisible element of human nature. This paper authors that time contrives emotions in human mind. In response we developed a concept of Affective Geometry. Time referencing has been essential to human activities. Watches have been our mobile companions for punctuality though this seems to be changing. We have summoned emerging behavior in relation to how people tell time thus making watches peripheral and antiquated. Affective Geometry is an active, intimate and affective, time telling device that compels time to be tactile, conscious and wearable language. Machine time is taught to confer with body time in situations of arousal and stress, while hours and minutes are continuously felt through buttons that push, pulse or tickle.
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