Nava Haghighi
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© Nava Haghighi. All rights reserved.
© Nava Haghighi. All rights reserved.
Advisors: Arvind Satyanarayan, Rosalind Picard
Photos by Nikolaj Rohde Simonsen
EDA self-interface is a real-time biofeedback device that connects a wearable EDA sensor to a real-time haptic biofeedback device. This series of formal explorations examine the epistemic power of physiological biofeedback devices and the entanglement of this power with design.
device assembly diagram.
(a) assembled unit
(b) adhesive structure
(c) actuator housing
(d) Linear Resonant Actuators
(e) silicone casing
Step 1:
Inserts are placed and adhered to the acrylic sheet.
Step 2:
Part A of the silicone is mixed with the silicone dye. Then Part A is mixed with Part B.
Step 3:
Silicone is poured into the mold. Then the acrylic sheet with the inserts are inserted into the silicone.
Step 4:
The part is removed from the mold. The negative inserts are removed. Other inserts such as the adhesive structure wings remain inside the silicone part.
Step 5:
The actuators are encased in the housing (pictured in blue). Then the assembled actuators and housing are inserted into the silicone (in place of inserts that were removed).
Step 6:
Final prototypes