How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design

  • Authors:
  • Scott R. Klemmer;Björn Hartmann;Leila Takayama

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Our physical bodies play a central role in shaping human experience in the world, understandingof the world, and interactions in the world. This paper draws on theories of embodiment - from psychology, sociology, and philosophy - synthesizing five themes we believe are particularly salient for interaction design: thinking through doing, performance, visibility, risk, and thick practice. We intro-duce aspects of human embodied engagement in the world with the goal of inspiring new interaction design ap-proaches and evaluations that better integrate the physical and computational worlds.