Body x Materials @ CHI: Exploring the intersections of body and materiality in a full-day workshop
We published a blog post on ACM Interactions about our Body x Materials workshop at CHI 2023: Body x Materials @ CHI: Exploring the intersections of body and materiality in a full-day workshop!
Semana de la Ciencia 2023: Muévete como un cíborg! Hackea tu cuerpo con tecnología sensorial vestible
¿Te gustaría probar y entender cómo se pueden diseñar nuevas tecnologías que cambien tu forma de moverte? ¿O que cambien la percepción de tu cuerpo y cómo te sientes con él, p.ej. tecnología que te haga sentir más ligero/a, más ágil o más feliz? En este taller participativo os invitamos a probar los materiales y herramientas que usamos en nuestros proyectos de investigación Magic outFit, BODYinTRANSIT y MovIntPlay Lab para diseñar tecnologías sensoriales vestibles que hackean nuestros sentidos, impactan la percepción de nuestro cuerpo, comportamiento, emoción y salud. Te invitaremos a que elijas un movimiento (p.ej. caminar) y que pruebes en primera persona distintos materiales y herramientas de nuestro laboratorio para cambiar cómo realizas ese movimiento, o cómo te sientes y percibes cuando lo realizas. Probarás herramientas tales como siliconas blandas que se engrandecen y se mueven con aire, sonidos que cambian dependiendo de cómo te muevas, o vibraciones en distintas partes del cuerpo. También te invitaremos a que nos compartas tus ideas para futuras tecnologías que te gustaría que diseñemos. Taller impartido por Joaquín Díaz Durán, José Manuel Vega Cebrián, Ana Tajadura Jiménez y Elena Márquez Segura, investigadoras del Dpto. de Informática de la UC3M en colaboración con Laia Turmo Vidal, investigadora de KTH Royal Institute of Sweden 17 de noviembre a las 17hAula Puerta de la Cultura, UC3M Campus Puerta de Toledo Reserva tu plaza en este formulario o en la siguiente dirección: jodiazd@pa.uc3m.es
Exploring Material Experiences Across Haptic Technologies
We co-organized the Exploring Material Experiences Across Haptic Technologies workshop at the IEEE WorldHaptics 2023 conference on July 10th, 2023. Haptic technologies have long sought to simulate the tactile properties of materials for virtual or remote interactions. Although the engineering aspects of these technologies have been extensively studied, little is known about the sensory and experiential spaces they offer for design. The human experience of materials can extend beyond their immediate sensory attributes, such as roughness, to influence user emotion, perceptions of one’s body, or encourage human expression, reflection, or action. This workshop aims to bring together haptic device creators, perception scientists, and interaction designers to explore and map the user experience of materials across various technologies. Workshop participants will rotate through 4-6 stations featuring natural and programmable materials and document their experiences through notes. These notes are then used to create and compare experiential maps, identify design gaps, and guide future engineering and design in haptics. For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://hastiseifi.com/whc-2023-workshop/
CHI’ 23 Workshop – Body x Materials
We are co-organizing the CHI’ 23 Workshop – Body x Materials, a workshop exploring the role of material-enabled body-based multisensory experiences.
C4DM-CogSci Workshop on Body-centred perspectives on human-human and human-machine interaction
Ana Tajadura-Jiménez presented The Hearing Body: Sound-driven Body Transformation Experiences Applications for Emotional and Physical Health in the C4DM-CogSci Workshop on Body-centred perspectives on human-human and human-machine interaction. It occurred at the Queen Mary University of London, on February 8th, 2023. The following was the abstract of the talk: Body perceptions are important for people’s motor, social and emotional functioning. Critically, neuroscientific research has shown that body perceptions are not fixed, but are continuously updated through sensorimotor information. In this talk, I will present work from our group on how sound and other sensory feedback on one’s body and actions can be used to alter body perception, creating Body Transformation Experiences. I will talk about how neuroscientifically grounded insights that body perceptions are continuously updated through sensorimotor information may contribute to the design of novel body-centred technologies to support people’s needs and for behaviour change. I will then present various studies from our current project, Magic OutFit, aimed to inform the design of wearable technology in which sensory-driven changes in body perception are used to enhance behavioural patterns and emotional states in the context of exertion. I will discuss how apart from the focus on real-life applications, novel technologies for body sensing and sensory feedback may also become a research tool for investigating how emotional and multisensory processes shape body perception. I will conclude by identifying new challenges and opportunities that this line of work presents, some of which we are addressing in our current ERC project BODYinTRANSIT.
Workshop: Embodied exploration and ideation of multisensory interaction with immersive data representations
We are holding a workshop to experience first hand and to explore how we can design multisensory interactions with immersive data representations in a different and innovative way, in particular, by using embodied design methods.