Body Matters

Roquet, Claudia Daudén; Sas, Corina

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395499

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“…Another strand of design methods includes bodily-based design approaches which have been purposefully tailored to support the articulation of bodily experiences. Body as a resource for design has received a growing HCI interest, both the body of participants [12,45,51,54] and of designers [1,55,58]. Grounded in phenomenology, the somaesthetics approach focuses on somatic experiences and our awareness of them, particularly while interacting with technologies.…”

Section: Bodily-centered Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensory Probes: An Exploratory Design Research Method for Human-Food Interaction

Gayler

Sas

Kalnikaitė³

2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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Designing interactions with food holds potential for rich multisensory experiences but their pervasiveness can challenge our understanding of them. This paper presents the design and evaluation of Sensory probes, a novel, exploratory design research method aimed to sensitize participants towards their food experiences. We report on workshops with 8 participants for co-designing the probes, followed by iterative revision through two-week diary studies with 18 participants. Findings indicate strong engagement with the sensory probes and how they brought forward the bodily and sensory aspects of these experiences, alongside emotional and social ones. We highlight the design rationale for the sensory probes which has been both empirically-and theoretically-grounded, provide reflections on the value of these probes for enabling novel perspectives on food experiences, and on probes' ability to capture what we called sensory fragments of participants' experience reflecting distinct sensory aspects form both internal and external senses. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; User centered design; Interaction design; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms.

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Section: Bodily-centered Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensory Probes: An Exploratory Design Research Method for Human-Food Interaction

Gayler

Sas

Kalnikaitė³

2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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“…However, this can be problematic given the importance of paying attention to and regulating one's bodily sensations arising during meditation, which is key for this embodied practice [19,43,61].…”

Section: Meditation Technologies: Mappings Of Meditation Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent HCI work also explored the bodily experiences associated with key meditation states [19]. Findings abound in metaphorical language indicating that meditation is experienced as a sensorial journey consisting of five key stages with specific bodily experiences: grounding is downwards movement, becoming mindful is upwards movement and warmth in the belly, being mindful is being in balance, and mind-wandering is loss of bodily awareness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Findings abound in metaphorical language indicating that meditation is experienced as a sensorial journey consisting of five key stages with specific bodily experiences: grounding is downwards movement, becoming mindful is upwards movement and warmth in the belly, being mindful is being in balance, and mind-wandering is loss of bodily awareness. Expert meditators suggested the value of recreating such bodily sensations through downward movement for mind-wandering, or of upwards movement to facilitate being mindful [19].…”

Section: Phenomenology Of Lived Experience Of Meditationmentioning

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“…There is a threefold reason for this. First, being mindful and mind-wandering states involved in meditation training are less accessible particularly for novice meditations [19,91] when compared to changes in physiological arousal accompanying, for instance, emotional responses to stress. Second, the mapping has to be subtle not to distract attention from the meditation itself [75]; and third, it has to strike the right balance between ambiguity and clarity, so that the mapping is understood without demanding focus of attention or engendering self-judgment when mind-wandering states are identified.…”

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Interoceptive Interaction: An Embodied Metaphor Inspired Approach to Designing for Meditation

Roquet

Sas

2021

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

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Meditation is a mind-body practice with considerable wellbeing benefits which can take different forms. Novices usually start with focused attention meditation that supports regulation of attention towards an inward focus or internal bodily sensations and away from external stimuli or distractors. Most meditation technologies employ metaphorical mappings of meditative states to visual or soundscape representations to support awareness of mind wandering and attention regulation, although the rationale for such mappings is seldom articulated. Moreover, such external modalities also take the focus attention away from the body. We advance the concept of interoceptive interaction and employed the embodied metaphor theory to explore the design of mappings to the interoceptive sense of thermoception. We illustrate this concept with WarmMind, an on-body interface integrating heat actuators for mapping meditation states. We report on an exploratory study with 10 participants comparing our novel thermal metaphors for mapping meditation states with comparable ones, albeit in aural modality, as provided by Muse meditation app. Findings indicate a tension between the highly discoverable soundscape's metaphors which however hinder attention regulation, and the ambiguous thermal metaphors experienced as coming from the body, and supported attention regulation. We discuss the qualities of embodied metaphors underpinning this tension and propose an initial framework to inform the design of metaphorical mappings for meditation technologies. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing ~Interaction design ~Empirical studies in interaction design

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Exploring Anima: a brain–computer interface for peripheral materialization of mindfulness states during mandala coloring

Roquet

Sas

Potts

2021

Human–Computer Interaction

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Body Matters

Abstract: Figure 1. Three objects created in workshops to materialize the lived experience of meditation using distinct embodied and material metaphors: (left) "The Healing Journey" by P5, (center) "Mandala" by P19, (right) "Meditation" by P12.

Cited by 28 publications

References 79 publications

Sensory Probes: An Exploratory Design Research Method for Human-Food Interaction

Sensory Probes: An Exploratory Design Research Method for Human-Food Interaction

Interoceptive Interaction: An Embodied Metaphor Inspired Approach to Designing for Meditation

Exploring Anima: a brain–computer interface for peripheral materialization of mindfulness states during mandala coloring

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