Hypnotist framing: hypnotic practice as a resource for poetic interaction design

  • Authors:
  • Rung-Huei Liang;Huang-Ming Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan;Eindhoven University of Technology, AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Interaction design has noticed that different notions of users reflect different underlying paradigms, ranging from task-oriented operators, cognitive users, to phenomenological individuals. When exploring non-task-oriented interaction such as poetic interaction design, it would be problematic to reduce a person into a specific type of user, as well as to regard an individual as always in a fixed mental state. Hypnosis is a practice known as its ability to make suggestions and to guide imagery by deliberately changing the mental state of a subject. An apprenticeship-based activity was conducted to reveal the perspective and techniques of a hypnotist, aiming to provide a lens through which interaction designers can reframe the relation between users and artifacts. This study sensitizes poetic interaction with Chinese poetry, collects accounts in the field, draws implications, and critically reflects on poetic imagery and guided imagery in a constructive way to enrich the body of knowledge in HCI.