Strange Loops : Augmenting Feelings

Abstract

Strange Loops is a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) that turns emotional states into colourful lights. Inspired by electric fields from the brain amplified by EEG, the mask reveals and augments the feelings of the wearer. By externalising the inner world, it creates a language of the imperceptible. In this respect, it investigates how wearable technology can create new forms of nonverbal communication, and make the emotional self tangible, as a dynamic Gestalt.