ABSTRACT
FELT is a computational textile wall panel that uses computation to privilege sensual and haptic communication through design. The purpose of FELT is to determine what emotion(s) still and shape-changing textural expressions can communicate to people. FELT was constructed as an experimental textile panel to understand communication from a texture at a larger scale. In addition, FELT was designed as a wall panel as opposed to an unfinished material. The central idea is that for both still and shape-changing textiles, there will be differences in what emotion is communicated to people depending on whether people experience the textiles via vision alone or via both vision and touch. I present the design, study methods, and results of the experiment using the FELT wall panel in this chapter.
