Harlow’s experiments highlighted the important role that our sense of touch plays in forming emotional attachments. My understanding of the relationship between emotional attachment and the senses led me to investigate the roles that touch plays in our everyday interaction with objects. For example, human comfort is very closely tied to temperature, with its extremes, both high and low, capable of causing discomfort and even harm through touch. We instinctively know that a metal chair should feel colder to the touch than a wooden one. We wrap both hands around our coffee mug and hold it close to our chest to warm us up on a cold day. From these observations I developed my thesis work, Emotional Objects, in which I modified three everyday objects in order to actively call attention to this dynamic relationship with heat, and to provide the user with a deeper understanding of their interactions with changing environmental conditions.