Soma-Based Design Theory

Höök, Kristina; Hummels, Caroline; Isbister, Katherine; Marti, Patrizia; Segura, Elena Márquez; Jönsson, Martin; Mueller, Florian; Sanches, Pedro; Schiphorst, Thecla; Ståhl, Anna; Svanæs, Dag; Trotto, Ambra; Petersen, Marianne Graves; Lim, Youn-kyung

doi:10.1145/3027063.3027082

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“…While there are contexts where authoritative systems may be beneficial, such as critical healthcare or emergency systems which pose unique ethical challenges [8], in the space of personal technologies for everyday life, we argue that there is a space for systems that critically engage users themselves in meaningmaking. Within HCI, the growing interest in the human body [24,25,52] has started to shape designers' need for better communicating and understanding of the internal, felt qualities of bodily experiences [47]; therefore, we further argue that users benefit from an increased bodily literacy in situations where it increases body awareness and aesthetic sensorial appreciation. As more and more data-intensive and wearable systems enter our everyday lives, it becomes critical to better communicate how sensor-based systems sense us and to, at times, include users in interpretation, decision making, but perhaps more importantly, enjoying and caring for the body.…”

Section: Evocative Balance As Part Of a Methodology To Co-construct Smentioning

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Ambiguity as a Resource to Inform Proto-Practices

Sanches

Höök

Sas

et al. 2019

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Skin conductance is an interesting measure of arousal level, largely unfamiliar to most end-users. We designed a mobile application mirroring end-users' skin conductance in evocative visualizations, purposefully made ambiguous to invite rich interpretations. Twenty-three participants used the system for a month. Through the lens of a practice-based analysis of weekly interviews and the logged data, several quite different-sometimes even mutually exclusive-interpretations or proto-practices arose: as stress management; sports performance; emotion tracking; general life logging; personality representation; or behavior change practices. This suggests the value of a purposefully open initial design to allow for the emergence of broader proto-practices to be followed by a second step of tailored design for each identified goal to facilitate the transition from proto-practice to practice. We contribute to the HCI discourse on ambiguity in design, arguing for balancing openness and ambiguity with scaffolding to better support the emergence of practices around biodata. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design;

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Section: Evocative Balance As Part Of a Methodology To Co-construct Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambiguity as a Resource to Inform Proto-Practices

Sanches

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Sas

et al. 2019

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…As our somaesthetic expertise increases, it is also sometimes beneficial to be able to put words to what we experience. A richer language allows us to share and point to specific experiences that we may later want to pick up on in our design processes [23]. This language does not necessarily have to be verbal.…”

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From Biodata to Somadata

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Tsaknaki

Sanches

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Biosensing technologies are increasingly available as offthe-shelf products, yet for many designers, artists and nonengineers, these technologies remain difficult to design with. Through a soma design stance, we devised a novel approach for exploring qualities in biodata. Our explorative process culminated in the design of three artefacts, coupling biosignals to tangible actuation formats. By making biodata perceivable as sound, in tangible form or directly on the skin, it became possible to link qualities of the measurements to our own somatics-our felt experience of our bodily bioprocessesas they dynamically unfold, spurring somatically-grounded design discoveries of novel possible interactions. We show that making biodata attainable for a felt experience-or as we frame it: turning biodata into somadata-enables not only first-person encounters, but also supports collaborative design processes as the somadata can be shared and experienced dynamically, right at the moment when we explore design ideas.

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“…Soma design as a holistic method of interaction design has been steadily gaining traction within the HCI community, particularly amongst those who create kinaesthetically introspective, bodily or sensational experiences [38,39,45,61,67]. One challenge associated with designing such experiences is that of articulation; it is well known that they are difcult to document, or indeed to describe because they are inherently 'felt'.…”

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Articulating Soma Experiences using Trajectories

Tennent

Höök

Benford

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we refect on the applicability of the concept of trajectories to soma design. Soma design is a frst-person design method which considers users' subjective somatic or bodily experiences of a design. Due to bodily changes over time, soma experiences are inherently temporal. Current instruments for articulating soma experiences lack the power to express the efects of experiences on the body over time. To address this, we turn to trajectories, a well-known concept in the HCI community, as a way of mapping this aspect of soma experience. By showing trajectories through a range of dimensions, we can articulate individual experiences and diferences in those experiences. Through analysis of a set of

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Soma-Based Design Theory

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Ambiguity as a Resource to Inform Proto-Practices

Ambiguity as a Resource to Inform Proto-Practices

From Biodata to Somadata

Articulating Soma Experiences using Trajectories

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