Mieke Fimpel, Nathan Flach, Mats Reckzügel, Bernhard Maurer
{"title":"“Hey, can we talk?”: Exploring How Revealing Implicit Emotional Responses Tangibly Could Foster Empathy During Mobile Texting","authors":"Mieke Fimpel, Nathan Flach, Mats Reckzügel, Bernhard Maurer","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3573124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3573124","url":null,"abstract":"In face-to-face communication, people can often achieve empathy by understanding the explicit and implicit emotions shared through body-language, word usage, and tone. But in digital communication it becomes difficult to share or identify these (non)verbal cues, especially after ambiguous conversation starters such as “hey, can we talk?” are sent. In this paper, we explore how a tangible artefact could enhance empathy in text-based communication by physically sharing implicit emotional feedback. We conducted two workshops to understand the emotions involved in ambiguous conversation starters and how they can be expressed through an artefact. These workshops resulted in a prototype of a phone case that sends the sender of a text message the initial implicit emotional reaction of the receiver using haptic patterns to inform the receiver how best to proceed. This paper concludes by discussing the nuances of designing for emotions in text-based communication as well as suggestions for future work.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115389286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yulia Sion, Claudia Diaz Reyes, D. Lamas, Mohammad Mokhalled
{"title":"Vibmory - Mapping Episodic Memories to Vibrotactile Patterns","authors":"Yulia Sion, Claudia Diaz Reyes, D. Lamas, Mohammad Mokhalled","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572747","url":null,"abstract":"Travel in time is possible. We do it every day by recollecting past experiences, called episodic memories. Episodic memories, being a key in defining self-identity, are very sensitive, especially to the effects of aging and dementia. What are the ways to relive our experiences, to make them brighter? While much HCI work has been dedicated to developing memory aids, it has not looked into the direction of physicalizing episodic memory by means of vibration. We present a method to map past experiences to specific vibrotactile patterns. The method includes in-depth interviews, materialization, and co-design sessions. As a result, eight vibrotactile patterns were co-designed to represent four positive and four negative memory episodes. We finalize by reflecting on the process, commonalities in mappings, and future work. We hope our research insights will inspire novel methods and technologies to give tangible forms to memorable experiences.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125578204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Cochrane, Chau Nguyen, Yidan Cao, Noemi M. E. Roestel, L. Jones, A. Girouard
{"title":"Adaptive Soft Switches: Co-Designing Fabric Adaptive Switches with Occupational Therapists for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury","authors":"K. Cochrane, Chau Nguyen, Yidan Cao, Noemi M. E. Roestel, L. Jones, A. Girouard","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572734","url":null,"abstract":"Acquired brain injuries have many complexities, largely affecting motor and cognitive functioning. Occupational therapists often use switches attached to electronics that activate the devices to give people with disabilities the ability to interact with toys and electronics. However, current switches on the market are expensive, break easily and are unable to customize. We ran two co-design workshops and follow-up interviews with 14 occupational therapists specializing in students with acquired brain injuries. In phase one, the occupation therapists built three soft switches and brainstormed iterations. In phase two, we gained valuable insights into the iterations from occupational therapists. This paper contributes to Human-Computer Interaction as a case study, designs guidelines to support co-design with occupational therapists, and discusses the potential of adaptive soft switches. This work contributes to the growing literature around supporting occupational therapists as makers and how researchers can support them during the co-design process.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130466230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating a Force-Based Selection Method for Smartwatches in a 1D Fitts’ Law Study and Two New Character-Level Keyboards","authors":"Yuanjun Ren, A. Arif","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572741","url":null,"abstract":"Selecting small targets is difficult on tiny displays due to the “fat-finger problem”. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using a force-based approach to target selection on smartwatches. First, we identify the most comfortable range of force on smartwatches. We then conduct a 1D Fitts’ law study to compare the performance of tap and force-tap. Results revealed that force-tap is significantly better in selecting smaller targets, while tap outperforms force-tap for bigger targets. We then developed two new force-based keyboards to demonstrate the feasibility of force input in practical scenarios. These single-row alphabetical keyboards enable character-level text entry by performing slides and variating contact force. In a user study, these keyboards yielded about 4 wpm with about 2% error rate, demonstrating the viability of force input on smaller screens.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130751382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Body as Sound: Unpacking Vocal Embodiment through Auditory Biofeedback","authors":"Courtney N. Reed, Andrew Mcpherson","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572738","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-sensory experiences underpin embodiment, whether with the body itself or technological extensions of it. Vocalists experience intensely personal embodiment, as vocalisation has few outwardly visible effects and kinaesthetic sensations occur largely within the body, rather than through external touch. We explored this embodiment using a probe which sonified laryngeal muscular movements and provided novel auditory feedback to two vocalists over a month-long period. Somatic and micro-phenomenological approaches revealed that the vocalists understand their physiology through its sound, rather than awareness of the muscular actions themselves. The feedback shaped the vocalists’ perceptions of their practice and revealed a desire for reassurance about exploration of one’s body when the body-as-sound understanding was disrupted. Vocalists experienced uncertainty and doubt without affirmation of perceived correctness. This research also suggests that technology is viewed as infallible and highlights expectations that exist about its ability to dictate success, even when we desire or intend to explore.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132812133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziyuan Jiang, Takafumi Morita, Kanon Aoyama, Yu Kuwajima, N. Hosoya, S. Maeda, Yasuaki Kakehi
{"title":"A Method for Controlling the Continuous Transparency of Three-dimensional Objects Utilizing Mechanical Emulsification","authors":"Ziyuan Jiang, Takafumi Morita, Kanon Aoyama, Yu Kuwajima, N. Hosoya, S. Maeda, Yasuaki Kakehi","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3573122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3573122","url":null,"abstract":"Physical interfaces that change appearance by controlling transparency have attracted attention for wide applicability. However, many existing methods are limited to planar objects, and it is difficult to control transparency in three-dimensional objects and to control transparency continuously. In this study, we propose a novel method to control the transparency of three-dimensional objects by utilizing the mechanical emulsification phenomenon of liquid. This approach is to fill the object with two transparent liquids that are liquid-liquid phase separated and agitate the liquids inside the object to make them cloudy and control their transparency. By using electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pumps, which can be freely positioned inside the object, to agitate the liquid, it is possible to control the transparency of complex three-dimensional objects. Continuous control is also achieved by changing the ratio of the two liquids. In this paper, we describe the details of proposed method for controlling the transparency and show application scenarios.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127821732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alice Haynes, Courtney N. Reed, Charlotte Nordmoen, Sophie Skach
{"title":"Being Meaningful: Weaving Soma-Reflective Technological Mediations into the Fabric of Daily Life","authors":"Alice Haynes, Courtney N. Reed, Charlotte Nordmoen, Sophie Skach","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3571844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3571844","url":null,"abstract":"A one-size-fits-all design mentality, rooted in objective efficiency, is ubiquitous in our mass-production society. This can negate peoples’ experiences, bodies, and narratives. Ongoing HCI research proposes design for meaningful relations; but for many researchers, the practical implementation of these philosophies remains somewhat intangible. In this Studio, we playfully tackle this space by engaging with the nuances of soft, flexible, and organic materials, collectively designing probes to embrace plurality, embody meaning, and encourage soma-reflection. Focusing on materiality and practices from e-textiles, soft robotics, and biomaterials research, we address technology’s role as a mediator of our experiences and determiner of our realities. The processes and probes developed in this Studio will serve as an experiential manifesto, providing practitioners with tools to deepen their own practices for designing soma-reflective tangible and embodied interaction. The Studio will form the first steps for ongoing collaboration, focusing on bespoke design and curation of meaningful, personal relationships.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128471250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Body, My Baby, and Everything Else: An Autoethnographic Illustrated Portfolio of Intra-Actions in Pregnancy and Childbirth","authors":"M. Gamboa","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572797","url":null,"abstract":"I have been interested for many years in technology and its impact in everyday moments, I had not yet had the chance to critically and systematically find a coherent and self-contained experience to focus on. In March 2021, I bought a digital pregnancy test for the first time, and an autoethnographic journey started. It was the first year of my PhD and I was expecting my third child. In this pictorial, I offer an illustrated and annotated portfolio of my pregnancy, from test to birth, with an emphasis on the technology entangled in the stories. Framed by Agential Realism, I identify the agential cuts in the illustrations. I conclude with an appeal for annotated portfolios of intra-actions, and for other HCI researchers to share their own socio-technical assemblages around fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth. I use my account of this process as a step towards making the intra-actions in pregnancy and childbirth a matter of care for the TEI community.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124894597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contingent Dreams","authors":"Hye Yeon Nam, B. Harmon, K. Cheng, Samira Awad","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3576176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3576176","url":null,"abstract":"Robots are usually considered tools, devoid of agency and thus creativity. This robotic art performance – Contingent Dreams – explores the generative role of the human artist, algorithm, machine, medium, and environment in art making. In this performance a robot, programmed and assisted by the artist, draws an algorithmic composition in ink. The drawings – derived from recordings of everyday sounds – represent the noise of cities in Louisiana, rendering an ephemeral aspect of the city in unruly mechanical brushstrokes. The drawings come to life as the precise paths of the algorithm are translated into bold, enigmatic brush strokes and anomalous drops of ink. The drawings emerge not just from the imagination of the artist, but also from the sounds of the city, the code of the algorithm, the mechanical motion of the robot, the physics of the brush bristles and ink, and the texture and absorbency of the paper. Each aspect of the performance adds meaningful contingency to the process, resulting in drawings that evoke, as accidents accumulate into meaning, the multiplicity of urban experience.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124160654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Jones, Alaa Nousir, Renee (Xinyu) Chen, Anne Liu, Meara Donovan, Eliza Wallace, Sara Nabil
{"title":"Making From Home: Reflections on Crafting Tangible Interfaces for Stay-at-home Living","authors":"L. Jones, Alaa Nousir, Renee (Xinyu) Chen, Anne Liu, Meara Donovan, Eliza Wallace, Sara Nabil","doi":"10.1145/3569009.3572744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572744","url":null,"abstract":"Pandemic lockdowns created new barriers for HCI researchers, but also provided new opportunities for deeper engagement and reflection in our home environments. Five participants were introduced with a design brief on self-isolation and engaged 12 of their friends and family in the design process of in-the-isolated-wild deployments. By analysing the design process, we found that –while ‘making from home’– our participants noticed the subtlety of the interactions and materials, the processes of remembrance embedded in craft, the use of imperfection and metaphor in homeware, and how ambient presence can provide emotional support. We then conducted a follow-up study on the benefits and limitations of using a crafting approach while ‘making from home’ and discuss the tensions that novices experience while designing TUIs in such an environment. Our results expand the literature by highlighting the benefits, limitations, and trade-offs of user-led design, DIY user empowerment, and harnessing the power of craft.","PeriodicalId":183744,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132216519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}