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- Ferreira, Pedro, et al.
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License to chill! : how to empower users to cope with stress
- 2008
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In: NordiCHI '08. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781595937049 ; , s. 123-132
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There exists today a paucity of tools and devices that empower people to take control over their everyday behaviors and balance their stress levels. To overcome this deficit, we are creating a mobile service, Affective Health, where we aim to provide a holistic approach towards health by enabling users to make a connection between their daily activities and their own memories and subjective experiences. This construction is based upon values detected from certain bodily reactions that are then visualized on a mobile phone. Accomplishing this entailed figuring out how to provide real-time feedback without making the individual even more stressed, while also making certain that the representation empowered rather than controlled them. Useful design feedback was derived from testing two different visualizations on the mobile in a Wizard of Oz study. In short, we found that a successful design needs to: feel alive, allow for interpretative openness, include short-term history, and be updated in real-time. We also found that the interaction did not increase our participants stress reactions.
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- Höök, Kristina, 1964-, et al.
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Somaesthetic Appreciation Design
- 2015
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In: 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450333627 ; , s. 3131-3142
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We propose a strong concept we name Somaesthetic Appreciation based on three different enquiries. First, our own autobiographical design enquiry, using Feldenkrais as a resource in our design process, bringing out the Soma Carpet and Breathing Light applications. Second, through bringing in others to experience our systems, engaging with and qualitatively analysing their experiences of our applications. In our third enquiry, we try to pin down what characterises and sets Somaesthetic Appreciation designs apart through comparing with and analysing others' design inquiries as well as grounding them in the somaesthetic theories. We propose that the Somaesthetic Appreciation designs share a subtleness in how they encourage and spur bodily inquiry in their choice of interaction modalities, they require an intimate correspondence - feedback and interactions that follow the rhythm of the body, they entail a distinct manner of making space shutting out the outside world - metaphorically and literally - to allow users to turn their attention inwards, and they rely on articulation of bodily experiences to encourage learning and increased somatic awareness.
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- Simbelis, Vygandas 'Vegas', et al.
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Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital
- 2015
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In: 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Digital Library. - 9781450333627 ; , s. 840-851
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Repurposing refers to a broad set of practices, such as recycling or upcycling, all aiming to make better use of or give new life to physical materials and artefacts. While these practices have an obvious interest regarding sustainability issues, they also bring about unique aesthetics and values that may inspire design beyond sustainability concerns. What if we can harness these qualities in digital materials? We introduce Delete by Haiku, an application that transforms old mobile text messages into haiku poems. We elaborate on how the principles of repurposing - working on a low budget, introducing chance and combining the original values with the new ones - can inform interaction design in evoking some of these aesthetic values. This approach changes our views on what constitutes "digital materials" and the opportunities they offer. We also connect recent debates concerning ownership of data with discussions in the arts on the "Death of the Author."
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- Sundström, Petra, et al.
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A user-centered approach to affective interaction
- 2005
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In: AFFECTIVE COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT INTERACTION, PROCEEDINGS. - BERLIN : SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. - 3540296212 ; , s. 931-938
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We have built eMoto, a mobile service for sending and receiving affective messages, with the explicit aim of addressing the inner experience of emotions. eMoto is a designed artifact that carries emotional experiences only achieved through interaction. Following on the theories of embodiment, we argue emotional experiences can not be design in only design for. eMoto is the result of a user-centered design approach, realized through a set of initial brainstorming methods, a persona, a Laban-analysis of body language and a two-tiered evaluation method. eMoto is not a system that could have been designed from theory only, but require an iterative engagement with end-users, however, in combination with theoretical work. More specifically, we will show how we have managed to design an ambiguous and open system that allows for users' emotional engagement.
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- Höök, Kristina, et al.
(author)
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Inferring complex plans
- 1993
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In: 1st International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We examine the need for plan inference in intelligent help mechanisms. We argue that previous approaches have drawbacks that need to be overcome to make plan inference useful. Firstly, plans have to be inferred - not extracted from the users? help requests. Secondly, the plans inferred must be more than a single goal or solitary user command.
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- Höök, Kristina, et al.
(author)
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Soma-based design theory
- 2017
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In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450346566 ; , s. 550-557
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Movement-based interaction design is increasingly popular, with application domains ranging from dance, sport, gaming to physical rehabilitation. In a workshop at CHI 2016, a set of prominent artists, game design-ers, and interaction designers embarked on a research journey to explore what we came to refer to as "aesthetics in soma-based design". In this follow-up work-shop, we would like to take the next step, shifting from discussing the philosophical underpinnings we draw upon to explain and substantiate our practice, to form our own interaction design theory and conceptualisations. We propose that soma-based design theory needs practical, pragmatic as well as analytical study -- otherwise the felt dimension will be missing. We will consider how such tacit knowledge can be articulated, documented and shared. To ground the discussion firmly in the felt experience of our own practice, the work-shop is organised as a joint practical design work session, supported by analytical study.
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- Lindström, Madelene, et al.
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Affective diary : designing for bodily expressiveness and self-reflection
- 2006
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In: CHI 2006 · Work-in-Progress. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Press. - 1595932984 ; , s. 1037-1042
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A diary provides a useful means to express inner thoughts and record experiences of past events. In re-readings, it also provides a resource for reflection, allowing us to re-experience, brood over or even shed the thoughts and feelings we’ve associated with events or people. To expand on the ways in which we creatively engage in diary-keeping, we have designed an affective diary that captures some of the physical, bodily aspects of experiences and emotions–what we refer to as "affective body memorabilia". The affective diary assembles sensor data, captured from the user and uploaded via their mobile phone, to form an ambiguous, abstract colourful body shape. With a range of other materials from the mobile phone, such as text and MMS messages, photographs, etc., these shapes are made available to the user. Combining these materials, the diary is designed to invite reflection and to allow the user to piece together their own stories.
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- Cockton, Gilbert, et al.
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Moving Towards a Journal-centric Publication Model for CHI : Possible Paths, Opportunities and Risks
- 2019
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In: CHI EA '19 EXTENDED ABSTRACTS. - New York, NY, USA : ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. - 9781450359719
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As a scholarly field, the ACM SIGCHI community maintains a strong focus on conferences as its main outlet for scholarly publication. Historically, this originates in how the field of computer science adopted a conference-centric publication model as well as in the organizational focus of ACM. Lately, this model has become increasingly challenged for a number of reasons, and multiple alternatives are emerging within the SIGCHI community as well as in adjacent communities. Through revisiting examples from other conferences and neighboring communities, this panel explores alternative publication paths and their opportunities and risks.
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- Ferreira, Pedro, et al.
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Bodily Orientations around Mobiles: Lessons learnt in Vanuatu
- 2011
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In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Since we started carrying mobiles phones, they have altered the ways in which we orient our bodies in the world. Many of those changes are invisible to us – they have become habits, deeply engrained in our society. To make us more aware of our bodily ways of living with mobiles and open the design space for novel ways of designing mobiles and their interactions, we decided to study one of the last groups of users on earth who had not been exposed to mobiles: the people of Vanuatu. As they had so recently started using mobiles, their use was still in flux: the fragility of the mo-bile was unusual to them as was the need to move in order to find coverage. They were still getting used to carrying their mobiles and keeping them safe. Their encounters with mobile use exposed the need to consider somaesthetics practices when designing mobiles as they profoundly affect our bodily ways of being in the world.
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- Helmes, John, et al.
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Rudiments 1, 2 & 3 : Design Speculations on Autonomy
- 2011
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In: Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI), Portugal. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Press. - 9781450306287 ; , s. 145-152
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This work describes the design process and installation of three speculative, rudimentary machines, or rudiments. Through careful iterations in their design, the rudiments are intended to provoke curiosity and discussion around the possibility of autonomy in interactive systems. The design of the rudiments is described in detail, alongside the design decisions that were made to suggest a machine autonomy and to provoke discussion. Some preliminary reflections from installing the rudiments in two separate households are also reported. Widely divergent opinions of the rudi- ments from the two households are used to discuss a num- ber of themes for thinking about autonomy and interactive systems design. Overall, the presented work adopts a per- spective strongly oriented towards guiding future research, but, importantly, aims to do so by opening up and exposing the design possibilities rather than constraining them.
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