Isabella Ong
Play-Space as a Research Tool
April 7, 2018 | Isabella OngWe are interested in investigating the affective feedback system between body and space using a physical play landscape, outfitted with bio-sensing technology of the EEG headset. As our design project, we wanted to create a series of experiments and we … Read More
Mechanical Systems
March 2, 2018 | Isabella OngFor this week, we set out to establish a connection between the data collected from a bio-sensor (we are using a heart pulse sensor for this) and a kinetic mechanical system. The data collected will be fed as inputs for … Read More
The Viscous Body
February 22, 2018 | Isabella OngEthics of the Viscous Body describes the human body as a viscous one — constantly negotiating with its environment as it seeks comfort. Comfort is the state for which the presence of the material environment disappears. It is when our … Read More
Biofeedback between body and environment
February 12, 2018 | Isabella OngIn his book, Limbo, Bernard Wolfe describes the human body as:
The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant.
The body exists as a … Read More
Machined Surveillance
Devices are planted in our houses; we are monitored, experiences turned into behavioural data (Farooq et al., 2015). However, this is no longer enough; corporations, world governments are using machin...
