IN-TOUCH: Digital Touch and Communication

Projektinformationen

IN-TOUCH

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 681489

DOI 10.3030/681489

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 31 August 2016

Startdatum 1 Oktober 2016

Enddatum 31 Mai 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 947 346,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 947 346,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Ziel

The rapid expansion of digital touch technologies is set to reconfigure touch and the tactile in significant ways, much as optical technologies transformed sight and the visual. This has immense social significance for communication. There are, however, major gaps in our understanding of touch as it is digitally mediated, and methods are under-developed for a social account of digital touch communication. This project will break new ground as the first comprehensive study of digital touch communication. It aims to obtain a deep understanding of the social and semiotic character of touch as it is mediated by digital technologies and its consequences and impact on human communication, through four objectives, to:
1. Develop innovative methodologies for researching digital touch communication;
2. Describe, explore and critically analyze the social and semiotic understanding of the communicative potentials and consequences of digital touch;
3. Advance new theoretical insights on digital touch communication;
4. Make a major contribution to knowledge on digital touch interventions and design.
Digital touch will be brought into sharp focus through the development of a novel socially oriented framework and methods that integrate the micro-lens of multimodality, the broad-ethnographic lens of sensory anthropology, and the experiential-lens of the arts. Eight in-depth case studies will be conducted in world-leading centres of digital touch innovation, with designers and users of digital touch communication in the wild (e.g. museums) and labs. These will investigate how the digital can supplement, heighten, extend, and reconfigure touch communication across a range of contexts (health, learning, work, leisure); re-shape what can be touched, lead to new touch-based capacities, practices and new forms of knowledge about the world.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › arts
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology

Schlüsselbegriffe

• digital touch technology
• multimodality
• methodological innovation
• sensory
• ethnographic

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-CoG-2015 - ERC Consolidator Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2015-CoG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 947 346,00
• Adresse: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT London ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Camden and City of London
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 947 346,00

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Vereinigtes Königreich

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 947 346,00
• Adresse: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT London
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Camden and City of London
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 947 346,00