Soma Design and Politics of the Body

Höök, Kristina; Eriksson, Sara; Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul; Felice, Marianela Ciolfi; Woytuk, Nadia Campo; Afsar, Ozgun Kilic; Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; Ståhl, Anna

doi:10.1145/3363384.3363385

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“…And this is one reason why soma design proved to be a suitable method to explore biosensing, as it opened our design space to account for a more holistic understanding of sensing, in addition to making sense of bodily data. In future work, we would like to explore engagements with somadata also from a feminist perspective [26], building on our previous work on the politics of the body [22].…”

Section: From First-person Accounts To Shared Experiencesmentioning

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From Biodata to Somadata

Alfaras

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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Section: From First-person Accounts To Shared Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Biodata to Somadata

Alfaras

Tsaknaki

Sanches

et al. 2020

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

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“…Similarly, J. Mascha Beuthel engages with soma design methods informed by autobiographical reflections for exploring uncomfortable experiences surrounding research professionalism. Using the idea that materials can be 'expressive entities' (Höök et al, 2019), she designed 'The Armor of a Researcher', a wearable artifact that embodies her observed experiences. This wearable aims to trouble such uncomfortable experiences through the somatic sensibilities offered by physical materials.…”

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“…These have influenced the emergence of a myriad of methods, such as bodystorming (Schleicher et al, 2010), experience prototyping (Buchenau & Suri, 2000), embodied sketching (Márquez Segura et al, 2016), moving and making strange (Loke & Robertson, 2013), focusing applied to design (Núñez-Pacheco & Loke, 2018, in press), and so on. Recently, we have also seen a surge in design projects that acknowledge the importance of the lived body, ranging from women's health (Balaam et al, 2020;Campo Woytuk et al, 2020;Ciolfi Felice et al, 2021), ideation artifacts (Windlin et al, 2019), a somatic approach to data (Alfaras et al, 2020;Tsaknaki et al, 2020), problematizing on the politics of designing with the soma (Höök et al, 2019), or designing for intercorporeality (Turmo Vidal, 2021), among many others.…”

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Diseño y sensibilidades somáticas

Núñez-Pacheco

Felice

Tsaknaki

2022

Diseña

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Cultivar la sensibilidad somática implica aumentar nuestra apreciación sensorial como vía para idear experiencias multisensoriales significativas en el diseño de interacción. Inmersos en un mundo cada vez más digitalizado y centrado en los datos, los proyectos de investigación centrados en la realidad sensorial, corporizada y material de nuestra experiencia, podrían empezar a perder impulso. Por otra parte, la pandemia también ha desplazado nuestros laboratorios, trasladándolos desde el carácter público del taller a la intimidad de nuestros hogares, aportando beneficios y retos inesperados. Los artículos incluidos en este número se centran en las experiencias sensoriales y materiales de diseñadoras que trabajan con métodos de diseño que ponen los modos somáticos de indagación en primer plano, mostrando cómo estos cambios podrían abrir nuevas oportunidades para subrayar la importancia de las prácticas corporizadas y somáticas en el diseño y la HCI.

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“…In our research, we are inspired by a somaesthetic and feminist approach to menarche, which is expressed in our values and design process focusing on advocacy, embodiment, plurality and participation [8,32,33]. Soma design builds on somaesthetics as a "a way to examine and improve on all connections between sensation, feeling, emotion, and subjective understanding and values" and a way of increasing aesthetic appreciation through all senses [59].…”

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confidence: 99%