By: Rosemary Lima “One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible” This quote by fiction writer William Gibson inspired me, along with my group domain of study, to further explore…
By: Fanny Ljungman Materiality has an important part in design. Everything we work with is materials. In the article by Gross, Bardzell and Bardzell, they even brought up the question if information can be materials [3]. But if everything can be materials it might be hard to understand where the concept starts and ends. I…
By: Kutzi Romero Although is common to use the terms of space and place indistinctly in our daily life, they are not synonyms nor interchangeable. Space is the three-dimensional structure that we perceive and observe, everything that is in-the-real-world and that allows actions and objects to occur in it. While place, according to Smaldone, “is predominantly…
By: Andreas Bergqvist In our daily lives, we often reach misunderstandings due to our aims and comprehension not being shared with others. This can be seen everywhere, from school projects and work doctrines to media and comedy. I, as a software consultant, have had long meetings with customers be mostly wasted due differences in our…
By Denis Bulygin In this essay I reflect on virtual cosmetic goods in online games, their connection to embodied interaction and sociomateriality. When thinking of embodied interaction, I often associate it with ‘third wave’ of HCI. I suppose, embodied interaction approach leads to the shift of the focus from a result of an action, when we…
By Roisatul Azizah In this essay, I will explore my understanding of materiality in design. Starting from how material properties of design and sketching materials affect the design process, concepts worth reflecting on include how materials “talk back” to designers. I will discuss those ideas based on one specific personal experience as a facilitator of a…
By Isabelle Granlund Without us even thinking about it, the world we live in influence us to behave in a certain way, which shapes us as humans and also as a society. In the book The concise townscape by Cullen, G. (1971) some architectural solutions are presented, together with their effect on the people that…
By Kutzi Romero In “Designing as reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation” Schön asks what AI would have to emulate for capturing the design knowledge embodied in the design practice and its practitioners. In order to answer this, he analyzes the information processing tasks in design with a phenomenological approach to revising different…
By Brenda Uga For this essay, I will explore my current understanding of embodied interaction and relate this understanding to concepts from the literature and to my previous experiences. Before this course started, I had the understanding that embodied interaction, or more specifically, embodiment, is something related to physicality and having a physical body. To…
By Darren Lehane People today are living increasingly more sedentary lives [1], and with this, the risk of muscular deterioration is greatly increased. The primary way to combat this deterioration is through the use of weight training exercises to develop the size and strength of skeletal muscles. The majority of all regular weight training exercise…
By Jezyna Domanska My group has been designing for Parkour, a city-based athletic practice. What I’ve learned about fear from our bodystorming session, is that it’s difficult to convince people to face their fears. A desire to face a fear, or in fact a desire to avoid facing it, seems to be very intrinsic –…
By Jeżyna Domańska Learning by exploring is an old, and very fun, method for learning. Who prefers reading a long manual of a device or program they just acquired, rather than just clicking around to see what happens? Who hasn’t opened up some device at least once, just to see how it looks inside? Both Murer…
Time Tracking with Tangible Interaction By Alexandra Kandler Flexibility in work-related context is often seen as the freedom of the 21st century. Home office and flexitime are concepts supposed to enable us to create a satisfying work-life-balance. It’s a lovely sunny day, you have a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day, or you…
By Linda Hirsch. In his book “Where the action is“, Dourish describes the role of sociology in embodied interaction as the “mediation between user and system designer”, explaining it further as a set of organised actions within a certain context between a specific group of members who have a common understanding of the meaning as well…
Essay by Moa Sävenryd Talking about phenomenology and the relationship between the mind and the body, or rather, the discussion that there is no separation between the two, relates (indirect and direct) to theories and concepts I have come across in my earlier studies in cognitive science. This both makes up for confusion and perspective,…
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