The Bodies of TEI – Investigating Norms and Assumptions in the Design of Embodied Interaction

Spiel, Katta

doi:10.1145/3430524.3440651

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“…Recent scholarship in HCI, informed by Disability Studies and critical feminist scholarship, has highlighted the ways in which the conventional approaches to design for embodied interaction are highly problematic ( Giaccardi and Karana, 2015 ; Shildrick, 2013 ). As Katta Spiel notes in ( Spiel, 2021 ), “bodies and how we design for them are products of social norms,” and these norms contain dangerous adverse consequences for bodies and people that do not fit readily inside these normative categories. Much of HRI and literature on embodied interaction equate being human with white, male, non-disabled bodies.…”

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Cubero

Pekarik

Rizzo³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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There is growing interest in developing creative applications for robots, specifically robots that provide entertainment, companionship, or motivation. Identifying the hallmarks of human creativity and discerning how these processes might be replicated or assisted by robots remain open questions. Transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and engineers can offer insights into how robots might foster creativity for human artists and open up new pathways for designing interactive systems. This paper presents an exploratory research project centered on drawing with robots. Using an arts-led, practice-based methodology, we developed custom hardware and software tools to support collaborative drawing with an industrial robot. A team of artists and engineers collaborated over a 6-month period to investigate the creative potential of collaborative drawing with a robot. The exploratory project focused on identifying creative and collaborative processes in the visual arts, and later on developing tools and features that would allow robots to participate meaningfully in these processes. The outcomes include a custom interface for controlling and programming robot motion (EMCAR) and custom tools for replicating experimental techniques used in visual art. We report on the artistic and technical outcomes and identify key features of process-led (as opposed to outcome-led) approaches for designing collaborative and creative systems. We also consider the value of embodied and tangible interaction for artists working collaboratively with computational systems. Transdisciplinary research can help researchers uncover new approaches for designing interfaces for interacting with machines.

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Cubero

Pekarik

Rizzo³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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“…Frey et al [27] developed a pendant where the wearer aligns their breath with the fading LEDs; a similar strategy to our use of ATB, yet we delve deeper into personal preferences regarding the public visibility of emotional data. HCI researchers are at the beginnings of conversations around the opposition to standardization and the support of diversification [40,101], towards bespoke and personalised technology designs.…”

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Breathing Scarf: Using a First-Person Research Method to Design a Wearable for Emotional Regulation

Cochrane

Cao

Girouard

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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The cognitive complexities of emotions and individualized coping strategies make it a difficult space for design. Collecting first-person data can provide nuanced understanding of the lived experience of emotional life, to better inform the design of wearable technologies for emotional self-regulation. We present a preliminary study of our first-person phenomenological approach to autobiographical design. The methodology is unique for the intertwining of emotional activities and mindfulness exercises, as a strategy for controlling emotional repercussions. Self-observation and documentation included journaling and sketching using the Inside-Out Probe workbook, followed by material prototyping and testing in-the-wild. The Breathing Scarf prototype embodies the design considerations. In designing for one to support personalized self-regulation strategies, key considerations include designing for personal comfort, ownership, and individual-over-social meaning-making. Of equal importance in the design research process are the well-being of the designer/researcher, the ability to self-regulate emotions, and the ethics of care and emotion work. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI design and evaluation methods; Field studies.

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“…For one, many workshop participants did not identify with it and would have preferred the ability to customize it, to better match their own bodies, or the bodies of the target group they were designing for. This also had practical design consequences, as it masked difficulties which arise when designing a fixed layout for multiple bodies (see also [48]). One might also speculate if the chest had been used as frequently for placing tactons in workshop one, if the mannequin had larger breasts.…”

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TactJam: An End-to-End Prototyping Suite for Collaborative Design of On-Body Vibrotactile Feedback

Wittchen

Spiel

Fruchard

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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We present TactJam, an end-to-end suite for creating and sharing low fidelity prototypes of on-body vibrotactile feedback. With Tac-tJam, designers can create, record and share vibrotactile patterns online. This opens up new ways of collaboratively designing vibrotactile patterns both in collocated as well as in remote settings. We evaluate TactJam in a two-part distributed online workshop, exploring the design of on-body tactons. Participants were able to successfully use TactJam to learn about tacton design. We present an overview of mappings between tactons and their associated concepts before comparing the results of tactons created using solely a GUI and tactons created through experimenting with placements directly on the body. Conducting both parts of the workshop separately highlighted the importance of designing directly with bodies: less implicit assumptions were made, and designs were guided by personal experience. We reflect on these results and close on deliberations for the future development of TactJam.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.

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The Bodies of TEI – Investigating Norms and Assumptions in the Design of Embodied Interaction

Cited by 83 publications

References 117 publications

The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Breathing Scarf: Using a First-Person Research Method to Design a Wearable for Emotional Regulation

TactJam: An End-to-End Prototyping Suite for Collaborative Design of On-Body Vibrotactile Feedback

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