The Enactive Torch: A New Tool for the Science of Perception

Froese, Tom; McGann, Marek; Bigge, W.; Spiers, Adam; Seth, Anil K.

doi:10.1109/toh.2011.57

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“…Relevant challenges also include the lack of understanding of situational factors of emotion expression. Seth, 2012). The basic idea is that control should be implemented as experientially transparent by avoiding positioning it between the user and his or her operational environment.…”

Section: Control We Live Bymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Controls Who? Embodied Control Within Human–Technology Choreographies

2017

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In this article we explore issues of embodied control that relate to current and future technologies in which body movements function as an instrument of control. Instead of just seeing ourselves in control, it is time to consider how these technologies actually control our moving bodies and transform our lived spaces. By shifting the focus from devices to choreographies among devices, we perform a theoretical analysis of the multidimensional aspects that reside within embodied interaction with technology. We suggest that it is beneficial to acknowledge and reformulate the phenomena of embodied control that go beyond the instrumental user-to-device control scheme. Drawing upon the phenomenology of the body, ecological psychology, and embodied cognitive science, we identify three different dimensions of embodied control: instrumental, experiential, and infrastructural. Design implications of this theoretical model are also discussed. Research highlights: • This paper clarifies the roles of technology and human beings in terms of movements and control: how we use movements in the control of technology, and reciprocally, how our movements are controlled by technology, thus constituting technology-induced choreographies. • The theoretical framework presented promotes the viewpoint of phenomenological philosophy on human-technology studies. This is done especially by treating movements as lived experiences that constitute humans as embodied beings. • The analysis of embodied control allows researchers and practitioners to be mindful in their visions and conceptualizations of body movement and control among different human-technology assemblages. • For HCI-related empirical research and practical design, this study formulates new ontological and epistemological groundings as well as new conceptual tools. • For interaction design, this paper underlines and illustrates the power and responsibilities embedded in developing instruments of control that contribute to choreographing human movements.

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Section: Control We Live Bymentioning

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Who Controls Who? Embodied Control Within Human–Technology Choreographies

2017

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“…Theories of embodied cognition and enactive action-perception offer new foundations for the current stage of tangible, embedded, embodied interaction [3,4,9]. The "cognitivist" approach [4] put on the user side some type of reasoning between perception and action.…”

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“…Enaction involves expressing and getting knowledge through the act of performing physical activities tightly coupled to perception [4]. Enactive interfaces are human computer interfaces based on enactive knowledge.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Enactive sketches for designing enactive interactions

Rodríguez¹,

González²,

Rossi³

2015

Proceedings of the Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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The role of sketching for designing enactive interactions is reviewed, a conceptual framework is described and an exploratory case study is analyzed and discussed. The framework is organized as a map with two dimensions: the first one expresses the interactivity embodied in the different representations used by designers. The other dimension organizes the user experience expressiveness achieved by the different sketches. The sketch categories are linked through the attributes of interactivity sought by the designer. The case study supports the need to include some form of interactive sketching for designing of enactive interactions..

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“…Among the haptic displays presented to date, vibrotactile actuators have been the most widely used in applications providing tactile cues for sensory substitution or augmentation, such as in prosthetic and assistive devices, entertainment, navigation systems for the visually impaired or for rescue/military applications, letter displays or contact notification of a virtual object [16], [17], [18], [19], [20] as they are compact, light-weight, affordable and easily integrated into portable systems. As such, also the majority of haptic displays in ETAs employ vibrotactile actuators [5], [6], [10], [11], [21]. Single or multiple vibration motors are attached to body parts or the handle of an ETA to provide information about the surroundings.…”

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Identification of Vibrotactile Patterns Encoding Obstacle Distance Information

Kim

Harders

Gassert

2015

IEEE Trans. Haptics

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Delivering distance information of nearby obstacles from sensors embedded in a white cane-in addition to the intrinsic mechanical feedback from the cane-can aid the visually impaired in ambulating independently. Haptics is a common modality for conveying such information to cane users, typically in the form of vibrotactile signals. In this context, we investigated the effect of tactile rendering methods, tactile feedback configurations and directions of tactile flow on the identification of obstacle distance. Three tactile rendering methods with temporal variation only, spatio-temporal variation and spatial/temporal/intensity variation were investigated for two vibration feedback configurations. Results showed a significant interaction between tactile rendering method and feedback configuration. Spatio-temporal variation generally resulted in high correct identification rates for both feedback configurations. In the case of the four-finger vibration, tactile rendering with spatial/temporal/intensity variation also resulted in high distance identification rate. Further, participants expressed their preference for the four-finger vibration over the single-finger vibration in a survey. Both preferred rendering methods with spatio-temporal variation and spatial/temporal/intensity variation for the four-finger vibration could convey obstacle distance information with low workload. Overall, the presented findings provide valuable insights and guidance for the design of haptic displays for electronic travel aids for the visually impaired.

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The Enactive Torch: A New Tool for the Science of Perception

Cited by 72 publications

References 48 publications

Who Controls Who? Embodied Control Within Human–Technology Choreographies

Who Controls Who? Embodied Control Within Human–Technology Choreographies

Enactive sketches for designing enactive interactions

Identification of Vibrotactile Patterns Encoding Obstacle Distance Information

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