Interactional empowerment

Höök, Kristina; Ståhl, Anna; Sundström, Petra; Laaksolaahti, Jarmo

doi:10.1145/1357054.1357157

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“…For example, Kristina Höök's group has developed emotional sensing interfaces for mobile devices based on the notion of the affective loop [28]. The idea behind the affective loop is that the problem of sensing users' emotions can be reframed if the gestures the user must use to express an emotion tend to reinforce that emotion (e.g.…”

Section: Consequences For Ubicompmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box

Leahu

Sengers

Mateas

2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

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In many ways, the central problem of ubiquitous computing -how computational systems can make sense of and respond sensibly to a complex, dynamic environment laden with human meaning -is identical to that of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Indeed, some of the central challenges that ubicomp currently faces in moving from prototypes that work in restricted environments to the complexity of real-world environments -e.g. difficulties in scalability, integration, and fully formalizing context -echo some of the major issues that have challenged AI researchers over the history of their field. In this paper, we explore a key moment in AI's history where researchers grappled directly with these issues, resulting in a variety of novel technical solutions within AI. We critically reflect on six strategies from this history to suggest technical solutions for how to approach the challenge of building real-world, usable solutions in ubicomp today.

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Section: Consequences For Ubicompmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box

Leahu

Sengers

Mateas

2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

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“…In our work, we also want to address directly the everyday, physical, bodily experiences of emotion processes (e.g. Sundström et al 2007;Ferreira et al 2008;Höök et al 2008;Ståhl & Höö k 2008;Sundström et al 2009). Early on Darwin made a strong coupling between emotion and bodily movement (Darwin 1872).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective loop experiences: designing for interactional embodiment

Höök

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Involving our corporeal bodies in interaction can create strong affective experiences. Systems that both can be influenced by and influence users corporeally exhibit a use quality we name an affective loop experience. In an affective loop experience, (i) emotions are seen as processes, constructed in the interaction, starting from everyday bodily, cognitive or social experiences; (ii) the system responds in ways that pull the user into the interaction, touching upon end users' physical experiences; and (iii) throughout the interaction the user is an active, meaning-making individual choosing how to express themselves-the interpretation responsibility does not lie with the system. We have built several systems that attempt to create affective loop experiences with more or less successful results. For example, eMoto lets users send text messages between mobile phones, but in addition to text, the messages also have colourful and animated shapes in the background chosen through emotion-gestures with a sensor-enabled stylus pen. Affective Diary is a digital diary with which users can scribble their notes, but it also allows for bodily memorabilia to be recorded from body sensors mapping to users' movement and arousal and placed along a timeline. Users can see patterns in their bodily reactions and relate them to various events going on in their lives.The experiences of building and deploying these systems gave us insights into design requirements for addressing affective loop experiences, such as how to design for turn-taking between user and system, how to create for 'open' surfaces in the design that can carry users' own meaning-making processes, how to combine modalities to create for a 'unity' of expression, and the importance of mirroring user experience in familiar ways that touch upon their everyday social and corporeal experiences.But a more important lesson gained from deploying the systems is how emotion processes are co-constructed and experienced inseparable from all other aspects of everyday life. Emotion processes are part of our social ways of being in the world; they dye our dreams, hopes and bodily experiences of the world. If we aim to design for affective interaction experiences, we need to place them into this larger picture.

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“…Thecla Schiphorst has, for many years, used somaesthetics as a framework for understanding and designing aesthetic embodied interactions (see e.g., [7]). Kristina Höök et al [8] have combined embodiment and an interpersonal perspective when they use embodied interaction theory to drive work on affective systems for emotional communication, an approach that has generated a number of outcomes for them and their colleagues, including the Lega, described below. The emerging fields of wearables and e-textiles rely implicitly or explicitly on embodiment and most often on interpersonal relationships as well (see e.g., [9,10]).…”

Section: Design Backgroundmentioning

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Sensibility, Narcissism and Affect: Using Immersive Practices in Design for Embodied Experience

Spence

Benford

2018

MTI

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'Embodiment' need not focus on isolated individuals or group interactions. This article articulates the potential for designs that prompt participants to bring relationships with other people to mind. These can be fleeting relationships between participants and unknown others, or remembered relationships with romantic partners, family members, or close friends who are not physically co-present or digitally represented. In either case, it is possible to generate affective responses that profoundly shape participants' emotional and physical reactions to, and co-creation of, the designed interaction. This article presents existing practices of immersive theatre to frame our exploration of this phenomenon. It introduces three theories-mise-en-sensibilité, narcissistic spectatorship and affect-through which we illuminate both the internally felt and the externally designed experience, whether or not it is explicitly framed as theatrical performance. Through analysis of two immersive performances (one-on-one interactions that could easily be understood in terms of experience design) and two designs of our own, we argue that the affect generated by personal relationships in immersive experiences can both shape and drive participation, and we offer a three-point guideline by which one can design for the affective consequences of bringing relationships to mind.

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Interactional empowerment

Cited by 67 publications

References 31 publications

Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box

Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box

Affective loop experiences: designing for interactional embodiment

Sensibility, Narcissism and Affect: Using Immersive Practices in Design for Embodied Experience

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