Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design CaseShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ISSN 1073-0516, E-ISSN 1557-7325, Vol. 28, no 6, article id 40Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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. However, as we will uncover through a detailed account of our process, these first-person engagements are deeply entangled with second- and third-person perspectives, sometimes even overlapping. The analysis furthermore reveals some strategies for bridging the body-mind divide by attending to our inner universe and dissolving or traversing dichotomies between inside and outside; individual and social; body and technology. By detailing the creative process, we show how soma design becomes a process of designing with and through kinesthetic experience, in turn letting us confront several dualisms that run like fault lines through HCI's engagement with embodied interaction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021. Vol. 28, no 6, article id 40
Keywords [en]
Soma design, somaesthetics, first person
National Category
Human Computer Interaction Other Engineering and Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-307034DOI: 10.1145/3462448ISI: 000734831300004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85122449400OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-307034DiVA, id: diva2:1626384
Note
QC 20220111
2022-01-112022-01-112025-02-18Bibliographically approved