ABSTRACT
This chapter explores possibilities of designing technology to extend the way one experiences the world around us, not just through readouts and static information relayed from external sensors and filtered through our conscious awareness, but what happens when these information sources become more integrally incorporated into our experience. It reflects upon a case study that uses a first-person experiential methodology to explore whether design and technology can be used to enhance our sensory experience. The chapter explores the lived experience of incorporating new sensory data to our construction of the world around us. The area chosen to explore this is direction and navigation. Theories of embodied cognition suggest that it is by interaction with the physical world that our mind is built, and our senses are critical to this. Human brains are highly specialized not for particular inputs or experiences, but to adapt to whatever is required.
