Recent Projects
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There are hundreds of devices that look and feel just like jewelry, but there is no accepted name for these devices. 

What would you call yours? 
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To take a poll, click on a question, or go tol: www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHJWTRX
CC 2015  Collaborators: Cognitive Science Research Group and Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

​Communicating "as if through Magic"

​Merging wearable technology with traditional artefacts, we are looking to work with couples in a workshop exploring thoughts, emotions and psychology around sentimental keepsake jewellery that hold memories of events and connect people to one another.
You can read more about it here.
CC 2016  Collaborators: Cognitive Science Research Group and Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

Mediation Strategies: ​Staying in touch when loved-ones are away
​Earlier studies showed that researchers use six strategies to mediate people's relationships and help them feel in-touch with their loved-ones when they are away. But we all have different relationships with different people we love. And these strategies go both ways.
You can read more about it here.
CC 2015  Collaborators: Cognitive Science Research Group and Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

Enchanting Sentimental Jewelry

Exchanging love-tokens and keepsakes in the form of jewelry is a thousand-year old tradition that endures to this day. As use of computational jewelry becomes more widespread, more and more jewelry keepsakes acquire computational components and become connected to other devices and to each other. 

We are interested in understanding qualities that are needed in connected computational keepsakes to preserve the tenderness and emotional sensibility of their traditional equivalents.

​You can read more about it here. 
CC 2015  Collaborators: Cognitive Science Research Group and Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

Overview of Jewelry-like Devices

This paper gives an overview of history and emerging trends and developments within jewelry-like devices. Based on these, we highlight and propose directions for technical features, use of material and interacting modalities and so on that could be applied in the development of the future computational jewelry devices.
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​You can read more about it here.


​We are currently looking for collaborators to make the results of our extensive survey freely available on the web.
If you are interested, please contact Yulia​

CC 2015  Collaborators: Cognitive Science Research Group at QMUL

Gadget in Disguise

Gadget in Disguise is a case study that looks into the effect of memory loss and the technology that is meant to give comfort, but provides complexity and requires disguise. 

You can read more about it here.
CC 2014  Collaborators: Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

The Distant Heart

The Distant Heart is a research that looks at ways the computational jewellery can mediate our long-distance relationships and investigates the implications of revealing and sharing real-time heartbeat between two people who are far away and miss each other. 

You can read more about it here.
Publication:
The Distant Heart: Mediating Long-Distance Relationships through Connected Computational Jewelry
Yulia Silina, Hamed Haddadi, May 2015, available on arXiv [paper]
CC 2014  Collaborators: Victoria & Alberts museum and Media & Arts Technology Centre at QMUL

Heart on a Sleeve 

Heart on a Sleeve was a project that dealt with the expression of one's "true" emotions in social circumstances. 

You can read more about it here.
CC 2012