PhysFeel: Mapping Material Properties Onto Emotions
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding from the UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing to work in collaboration with colleagues in UCL Psychology and the Institute of Education. The funding is for a pilot project, ‘PhysFeel’, which aims to explore how physical props and material stimuli can enable a different kind of conversation about emotions than that made available through verbal communication.
The project team will investigate:
- Whether emotions may be communicated non-verbally using sets of physical objects that vary in physical dimensions such as density, hardness, elastic modulus, thermal emissivity, surface roughness and luminosity;
- What dimensions of emotions these physical properties might map onto.