학술논문

Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 28(6):1-36
Subject
Soma design
somaesthetics
first person
Language
English
ISSN
1073-0516
1557-7325
Abstract
We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. However, as we will uncover through a detailed account of our process, these first-person engagements are deeply entangled with second- and third-person perspectives, sometimes even overlapping. The analysis furthermore reveals some strategies for bridging the body-mind divide by attending to our inner universe and dissolving or traversing dichotomies between inside and outside; individual and social; body and technology. By detailing the creative process, we show how soma design becomes a process of designing with and through kinesthetic experience, in turn letting us confront several dualisms that run like fault lines through HCI’s engagement with embodied interaction.