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View article: Estrangement through Silence
Estrangement through Silence Open
How can we cultivate deeper attunement to one another, ourselves, and the environment that can, in turn, inform and enrich design? Over the course of four workshops conducted across 1.5 years - primarily outdoors - the authors engaged in p…
View article: Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories Open
We reappraise the idea of colliding with robots, moving from a position that tries to avoid or mitigate collisions to one that considers them an important facet of human interaction. We report on a soma design workshop that explored how ou…
View article: Five Political Provocations for Soma Design: A Relational Perspective on Emotion and Politics
Five Political Provocations for Soma Design: A Relational Perspective on Emotion and Politics Open
Soma design is intimately entangled with the politics, not only of design itself, but of bodies. We combine perspectives from soma design, political theory, and Sara Ahmed’s work The Cultural Politics of Emotions, to develop five political…
View article: Designerly Ways of Knowing- Soma Design Meets Industrial Design Thinking
Designerly Ways of Knowing- Soma Design Meets Industrial Design Thinking Open
Soma design processes are known to be slow and thoughtful, demanding personal engagement, authenticity and deep somatic engagements with both ourselves and the interactive materials. What happens when such designerly ways of knowing meet w…
View article: More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research
More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research Open
Interactive systems have become an integral part of our daily lives, influencing how we communicate, work, and play. Understanding the intricate relationship between humans and technology is at the core of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) …
View article: Ten Permissions for Facilitating (Live) Design Activities
Ten Permissions for Facilitating (Live) Design Activities Open
Workshop ideation activities are often described with little attention to the role of the facilitator – a role often portrayed as following a recipe, and not getting in the way of the process. Our experience tells a different story. In thi…
View article: Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations
Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations Open
We present mechanical sympathy as a generative design concept for cultivating somaesthetic relationships with machines and machine-like systems. We identify the qualities of mechanical sympathy using the design case of How to Train your Dr…
View article: Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Programming in Perception-Action Loops
Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Programming in Perception-Action Loops Open
In a long-term commitment to designing for the aesthetics of human–drone interactions, we have been troubled by the lack of tools for shaping and interactively feeling drone behaviours. By observing participants in a three-day drone challe…
View article: How to Train Your Drone: Exploring the umwelt as a design metaphor for human-drone interaction
How to Train Your Drone: Exploring the umwelt as a design metaphor for human-drone interaction Open
How To Train Your Drone is a novel human-drone interaction that demonstrates the generative potential of a design metaphor: the umwelt. We describe the concept of the umwelt and detail how we applied it to inform our soma design process, c…
View article: Exploring the Somatic Possibilities of Shape Changing Car Seats
Exploring the Somatic Possibilities of Shape Changing Car Seats Open
Through a soma design process, we explored how to design a shape-changing car seat as a point of interaction between the car and the driver. We developed a low-fdelity prototyping tool to support this design work and describe our experienc…
View article: Programming Human-Drone Interactions: Lessons from the Drone Arena Challenge
Programming Human-Drone Interactions: Lessons from the Drone Arena Challenge Open
We report on the lessons we learned on programming human-drone interactions during a three-day challenge where five teams of drone novices each programmed a nanodrone to be piloted through an obstacle course using bodily movement. Center t…
View article: Who Should Act? Distancing and Vulnerability in Technology Practitioners' Accounts of Ethical Responsibility
Who Should Act? Distancing and Vulnerability in Technology Practitioners' Accounts of Ethical Responsibility Open
Attending to emotion can shed light on why recognizing an ethical issue and taking responsibility for it can be so demanding. To examine emotions related to taking or not taking responsibility for ethical action, we conducted a semi-struct…
View article: An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Open
Governments use propaganda, including through visual content -- or Politically Salient Image Patterns (PSIP) -- on social media, to influence and manipulate public opinion. In the present work, we collected Telegram post-history of from 98…
View article: Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Supporting Perception-Action Loops
Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Supporting Perception-Action Loops Open
We report on a three-day challenge during which five teams each programmed a nanodrone to be piloted through an obstacle course using bodily movement, in a 3D transposition of the '80s video-game Pacman. Using a bricolage approach to analy…
View article: Corsetto
Corsetto Open
We present a novel intercorporeal experience - an intersubjective haptic voice. Through an autobiographical design inquiry, based on singing techniques from the classical opera tradition, we created Corsetto, a kinesthetic garment for tran…
View article: Collision Design
Collision Design Open
Collision, "the violent encounter of a moving body with another", is poorly understood in HCI. When we discuss people colliding with the physical artifacts we create, or colliding with each other while using our systems, this is primarily …
View article: Boards Hit Back: Reflecting on Martial Arts Practices Through Soma Design
Boards Hit Back: Reflecting on Martial Arts Practices Through Soma Design Open
There is an increasing interest in the HCI community in designing for bodily practices. We report on a soma design process for martial arts and the resulting artifact – an interactive wooden dummy. Through a detailed account of the design …
View article: Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice
Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice Open
We theoretically develop the ethical positions implicit in somaesthetic interaction design and, using the case study of a water faucet, illustrate our conceptual understanding of ethical sensibilities in design. We apply four lenses – the …
View article: SKETCHING SOMA BITS
SKETCHING SOMA BITS Open
To support sketching in soma design processes, we built the Soma Bits. These simple technology pieces enable one bit actuation like vibration, heat or shape-changing behaviors. After using them for three years, we ask how well they support…
View article: Vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processes
Vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processes Open
We articulate vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processes and discuss the conditions of its emergence. We argue that purposeful vulnerability – an act of taking risk, exposing oneself, and resigning part of one's autonomy –…
View article: Making New Worlds – Transformative Becomings with Soma Design
Making New Worlds – Transformative Becomings with Soma Design Open
Soma design is intended to increase our ability to appreciate through all our senses and lead to more meaningful interactions with the world. We contribute a longer-term study of soma design that shows evidence of this promise. Using story…
View article: The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction Open
Emotion has been studied in HCI for two decades, with specific traditions interested in sensing, expressing, transmitting, modelling, experiencing, visualizing, understanding, constructing, regulating, manipulating or adapting to emotion i…
View article: Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror
Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror Open
We report on a soma design process, where we designed a novel shape-changing garment—the Soma Corset. The corset integrates sensing and actuation around the torso in tight interaction loops. The design process revealed how boundaries betwe…
View article: Graspable AI: Physical Forms as Explanation Modality for Explainable AI
Graspable AI: Physical Forms as Explanation Modality for Explainable AI Open
Explainable AI (XAI) seeks to disclose how an AI system arrives at its outcomes. But the nature of the disclosure depends in part on who needs to understand the AI and the available explanation modalities (e.g., verbal and visual). Users' …
View article: Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case
Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case Open
We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. Ho…
View article: OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’
OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’ Open
Fiber – a primitive yet ubiquitous form of material – intertwines with our bodies and surroundings, from constructing our fibrous muscles that enable our movement, to forming fabrics that intimately interface with our skin. In soft robotic…
View article: Exploring Awareness of Breathing through Deep Touch Pressure
Exploring Awareness of Breathing through Deep Touch Pressure Open
Deep Pressure Therapy relies on exerting firm touch to help individuals with sensory sensitivity. We performed first-person explorations of deep pressure enabled by shape-changing actuation driven by breathing sensing. This revealed a nove…