MATTER: Put on Your Empathy Suit
February 6th, 2009 by Maxine
While the term might sounds like something as figurative as “thinking cap” or “birthday suit,” an empathy suit is an actual contraption used by designers to simulate various conditions, including old age. The Mobilstrictor, for example, simulates a loss of mobility–the kind that might come from an accident, or a condition like rheumatoid arthritis. Designers don the [...]
