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How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design

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Scott R. Klemmer,

Björn Hartmann,

Leila TakayamaAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142429

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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.

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How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design
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  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
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