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E-skin in virtual environments explores the relationship between tactile, visual and acoustic perception using both visually impaired and non-impaired dancers. It involves the collaboration with two well-known Zürich dance companies: The Ventura Dance Company and The Carambole Dance Company.
Through workshops the dancers will use our wearable interfaces to investigate the context of skin including its cultural references as well as its tactile potentials of temperature, pressure, communication and vibration. The dancers can access acoustic, tactile, and visual information in real time, which automatically produces valuable feedback for other dancers and for the audience. This virtual stage environment of e-skin furthers our aims to produce ubiquitous human-computer interfaces, which can help with movement and communication in an audio-visual environment. The experiment also allows us to assess e-skin's potential for orientation and information and provides helpful hints for the development of ergonomic interfaces for real and virtual environments.