How Bodies Matter: Five Themes For Interaction Design

Klemmer, S. R., Hartmann, B., & Takayama, L. (2006). How Bodies Matter: Five Themes For Interaction Design. In Proc. DIS ’06 (pp. 140–149). ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1142405.1142429

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1. Thinking Through Doing
2. Performance
3. Visibility
4. Risk
5. Thick Practice

Summary

Notes

2006:

"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."

The goal is to provide "insight for both ideation and evaluation of interaction design that integrates the physical and computational worlds."

The work is broken into 5 sections.

1. Thinking Through Doing

Learning Through Doing

The Role of Gesture

Epistemic Action

Thinking Through Prototyping

On Representation

2. Performance

Action-Centered Skills

Motor Memory

Reflective Reasoning Is Too Slow

3. Visibility

Situated Learning

Visibility Facilitates Coordination

That's What Performance Is About

Verified Voting

4. Risk

Physical Action Is Characterized By Risk

Trust And Commitment

Personal Responsibility

Attention

5. Thick Practice

Summary

A very dense paper.

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