Mediated Touch:Media Archaeology on a Kind of Sensor-Society
Medium studies have long emphasized the senses of hearing and made light of touching,while an intuitively biological understanding of touch is also prevalent.This paper argues that there is no such thing as purely unmediated perception,and that medium studies need to provide a richer empiri-cal account of the history of touch and its cultural forms.Accordingly,this research uses touch sensors as archaeological objects and exploring the technological connotations of the sense of touch in the process of being sensed,and the position of the body in touch interactions,as well as the societal effects of such touch.The study concludes that capacitive touch sensors have outperformed resistive and opti-cal technologies in the marketplace,emphasizing the primacy of the hand and finger"image".Corre-spondingly,pen writing,mouse control,and finger gesture evolution have also laid an important mate-rial foundation for different degrees of penetration of the screen,and continue to emphasize the techni-cal conditions of all kinds of"finger movements"occurring at the same time as the return of the"writ-ing"posture,indicates the uncertainty of mediated touch today.The transformation of the fingerprint as a"device"of the touch interface further reflects the security concerns of the digital world.
万方数据
维普
