Embodied Interaction or Context-Aware Computing? An Integrated Approach to Design

Authors:
Johan Eliasson;Teresa Cerratto Pargman;Robert Ramberg
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden SE-164 40;Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden SE-164 40;Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden SE-164 40
Venue:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: New Trends
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper revisits the notion of context from an interaction design perspective. Since the emergence of the research fields of Computer supported cooperative work and Ubiquitous computing, the notion of context has been discussed from different theoretical approaches and in different research traditions. One of these approaches is Embodied Interaction. This theoretical approach has in particular contributed to (i) challenge the view that user context can be meaningfully represented by a computer system, (ii) discuss the notion of context as interaction through the idea that users are always embodied in their interaction with computer systems. We believe that the particular view on users context that the approach of Embodied Interaction suggests needs to be further elaborated in terms of design. As a contribution we suggest an integrated approach where the interactional view of Embodied Interaction is interrelated with the representational view of Context-aware computing.