My book will, in hope, communicate the sensation of positive and negative touch through visual color references.
The breakdown:
By interviewing numerous individuals about the emotions felt when one is touched vs. not touched, I have come up with a list of 19 "high-touch" emotions and 19 "low-touch" emotions that correlate with this sensation.
Next, I assigned specific "colors" that best communicate the emotion perceived. For instance,
warm is assigned a warm orange-brown to communicate the sense of warmth etc. To somehow connect the emotions via the limitations of a book, I've decided to blend the colors/emotions in 19 equal steps. Each color then becomes a combination of emotions, much like the combination of emotions an individual experiences when touched.
My chart (1-1, 1-2, 1-3 etc.) is basically saying (I feel intensely warm, I feel very warm and minutely comforted, I feel very warm and a little comforted etc.) My spectrum is categorical and ordinal.
The High Touch Spectrum is below:
Low Touch Spectrum coming soon.
Hopefully this will bring some clarity to my project. I'd appreciate some comments.