Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media explores how and to what ends wearable inventions and technologies augment or remix reality, as well as the claims used to promote them. As computer components shrink and our mobile culture normalizes, we wear computers on the body to create immersive experiences.
About the author
Isabel Pedersen is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media, and Culture and an Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She has been interested in human-computer interaction ever since she spent her youth playing Pac-Man in the Yonge Street arcades of downtown Toronto.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 196 ● ISBN 9781602354029 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Publisher Parlor Press, LLC ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6943064 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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