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Biosensing and Actuation-Platforms Coupling Body Input-Output Modalities for Affective Technologies
PLUX Wireless Biosignals, Ave 5 Outubro 70, P-1050059 Lisbon, Portugal.;Univ Jaume 1, Dept Engn & Ciencia Comp, RobInLab, Avinguda Vicent Sos Baynat S-N, Castellon de La Plana 12071, Spain..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8942-5843
PLUX Wireless Biosignals, Ave 5 Outubro 70, P-1050059 Lisbon, Portugal.;UNL Univ NOVA Lisboa, Dept Fis, LIBPhys FCT, P-2825149 Caparica, Portugal..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7128-538X
Univ Lancaster, Comp & Commun Dept, InfoLab21, Lancaster LA1 4WA, England..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0017-9827
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4481-4298
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2020 (English)In: Sensors, E-ISSN 1424-8220, Vol. 20, no 21, article id 5968Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research in the use of ubiquitous technologies, tracking systems and wearables within mental health domains is on the rise. In recent years, affective technologies have gained traction and garnered the interest of interdisciplinary fields as the research on such technologies matured. However, while the role of movement and bodily experience to affective experience is well-established, how to best address movement and engagement beyond measuring cues and signals in technology-driven interactions has been unclear. In a joint industry-academia effort, we aim to remodel how affective technologies can help address body and emotional self-awareness. We present an overview of biosignals that have become standard in low-cost physiological monitoring and show how these can be matched with methods and engagements used by interaction designers skilled in designing for bodily engagement and aesthetic experiences. Taking both strands of work together offers unprecedented design opportunities that inspire further research. Through first-person soma design, an approach that draws upon the designer's felt experience and puts the sentient body at the forefront, we outline a comprehensive work for the creation of novel interactions in the form of couplings that combine biosensing and body feedback modalities of relevance to affective health. These couplings lie within the creation of design toolkits that have the potential to render rich embodied interactions to the designer/user. As a result we introduce the concept of "orchestration". By orchestration, we refer to the design of the overall interaction: coupling sensors to actuation of relevance to the affective experience; initiating and closing the interaction; habituating; helping improve on the users' body awareness and engagement with emotional experiences; soothing, calming, or energising, depending on the affective health condition and the intentions of the designer. Through the creation of a range of prototypes and couplings we elicited requirements on broader orchestration mechanisms. First-person soma design lets researchers look afresh at biosignals that, when experienced through the body, are called to reshape affective technologies with novel ways to interpret biodata, feel it, understand it and reflect upon our bodies.

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MDPI AG , 2020. Vol. 20, no 21, article id 5968
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human-computer interaction, affective technologies, interaction design, biosensing, actuation, somaesthetics, design toolkits
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Human Computer Interaction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-287527DOI: 10.3390/s20215968ISI: 000589320300001PubMedID: 33105545Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85094123655OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-287527DiVA, id: diva2:1511358
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