Embodied imagination: a hybrid method of designing for intimacy

Hansen, Lone Koefoed; Kozel, Susan

doi:10.1080/14626260701743200

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“…These findings shed light on how ordinary people find emotional fulfillment in online social spaces, and what the relationships are between technology and “some of the deepest and most meaningful dimensions of human experience (Bardzell & Bardzell, , p. 11). This would be important for designing and understanding the next generation of ICTs – to acknowledge the sensory, affective, poetic and corporeal qualities of the moment of lived experience (Koefoed Hansen & Kozel, ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

She makes me brave: The emergence of intimacy in gameplay

Freeman

2014

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This paper investigates the complex relationship between intimacy and play, and offers an empirical analysis of how intimacy emerges in a playful digital environment (i.e., Audition). Audition is a non‐violent, non‐fantasy dance battle Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) that has many Asian and female players, and provides a sophisticated in‐game marriage system. Based on players’ self‐reports posted on public online forums and in‐depth interview data from 35 Audition players, this study shows that Audition marriage is more than a playful game feature for many players. Instead, players experience genuine, meaningful intimate relationships there, and consider their in‐game marriage an emergent learning process to satisfy their social and emotional needs. This study contributes to understanding interpersonal dynamics forged around technological objects in digital environments, which is important for designing Intimate (Ubiquitous) Computing and the next generation of ICTs.

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confidence: 99%

She makes me brave: The emergence of intimacy in gameplay

Freeman

2014

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“…Besides being an inherent part of the design process, imagination can be something we can work towards. Design researchers have explored a variety of approaches where imagination is a desired outcome, such as speculative design [8], embodied imagination [12] and the use of metaphor [1,18].…”

Section: Imagination In Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design

Smith

Zwan

Bruineberg

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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We follow up on a prominent line of work in which principles of embodied cognition are employed to not only account for skilled coping but also for more intellectual activities such as remembering and imagination. Imagination then, is not a reflective activity an individual does by herself, but a shared and embodied activity scaffolded by tangible design. We present a case study in which we designed a toolkit to facilitate imagining the Netherlands in 2050. We wrote speculative stories of people living in 2050 and designed an assortment of objects. We held several workshops to use the toolkit for shared imagination for our client, Rijkswaterstaat. We analyze how, in the context of the workshops, the stories and objects provided affordances for shared imagination. We thereby hope to have demonstrated that it is possible to design for more intellectual activities in a tangible and embodied way.

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“…To elaborate on a few examples, Larssen, Robertson, and Edwards [32] explore the notion of experiential bodily knowing by reframing interaction design as a movement discipline; or Hummels, Overbeeke, and Klooster [38], who point out that physical interaction is key to access meaning for the design of movement-based interaction. Tacit knowledge generated through bodily engagement is also seen as contrasted to verbal paradigms [4,39], a reason that makes evident why engaging in somatic connoisseurship is important for the articulation of tacit knowledge applied to design practice, as it allows making self-knowledge specific and, therefore, transmissible [40]. One of the salient issues in the integration of somatic knowledge into the design process is the difficulty to articulate aesthetic qualities, as well as transfer those values [12][13][14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Placebo objects can also be used to stimulate imagination, later informing the creation of new technology. The use of the Placebo Sleeves by Koefoed Hansen and Kozel [39] explores the affective dimension of network communication through the utilisation of techniques inspired by theatre and performance. Their placebo sleeves were intended to assist participants in the suspension of their preconceptions about technology, facilitating the generation of affective responses through interaction with the artefacts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As discussed, the focus on the body as a source of symbolic meaning-making might seem foreign for most designers and researchers in the area, as the idea of thinking through making has, in part, defined the role of knowledge generation as embedded in the generation of artefacts and models [76]. In addition, bodily knowing is generally interpreted as non-linguistic in nature [4,39].…”

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Reflection through Inner Presence: A Sensitising Concept for Design

Núñez-Pacheco

2018

MTI

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Although our embodied dimension has been recognised as a generative source of imagination through movement and gesture, the notion of the body as a generator of more symbolic and descriptive expressions of knowledge remains mostly unexplored in human-computer interaction (HCI). This theoretical paper introduces the sensitising concept of reflection through inner presence, in contrast to reflection in action, as a way to differentiate two modes of embodied reflection generating distinct types of materials for design ideation, inspiration, and information. The relevance of this distinction, and the recognition of inner presence in somatic-oriented design, appears as a way to fill the gap of the reported elusiveness in the description of inner experience for design use. Different than design approaches that use reflection in action, reflection through inner presence generates detailed accounts of somatic and aesthetic qualities, which can be potentially incorporated into the design of artefacts.

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Embodied imagination: a hybrid method of designing for intimacy

Cited by 36 publications

References 8 publications

She makes me brave: The emergence of intimacy in gameplay

She makes me brave: The emergence of intimacy in gameplay

Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design

Reflection through Inner Presence: A Sensitising Concept for Design

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