Bonding and the Artificial Womb

Bonding and the Artificial Womb: Creating an experience through meaningful interactions

Bonding and the Artificial Womb – 1st year Master 2019

Aim: Design an artifact that provides conscious bonding between a baby in the artificial womb and
parents, by creating an experience through meaningful interactions.
Theme: Social contact, Bonding, Data-physicalization, human-computer interaction
Expertise Areas: Technology & Realization, User & Society, Creativity & Aesthetics, Math Data & Computing

The artificial womb offers the solution to many problems and implications that happen to premature children and their families as a cause of early birth. But it also let’s new questions emerge. Like what will be the role of the parents in this new situation with a child in the artificial womb?

This made it the goal of this project to: Design an artifact that provides conscious bonding between baby in the artificial womb and parents by creating an experience through meaningful interactions.

This resulted in a designed immersive experience that gives parents tactile, audible, and visual feedback from their child in the artificial womb. Because this results in coregulation it will unconsciously strengthen the bond between parent and child!