IC Monday Seminar - Knowing, Communicating and Experiencing Through Body and Emotion
Event details
| Date | 01.11.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Kristina Höök invited by Pierre Dillenbourg |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
With new technologies such as body sensors, tangible interaction, haptics, interactive cloth, or small computing devices such as mobiles, we can move interaction from the desktop out into the world and onto our bodies. Likewise, with the boom of computer games, domestic digital technology use, and social communication tools, we have to consider designing for non-instrumental goals, beyond task completion. This has been picked up by human-computer interaction researchers in the so-called third wave of HCI, a movement that aims to design for experiences involving users emotionally, bodily and providing for aesthetic experiences.
Designing for bodily interaction, emotional communication or aesthetics is not trivial. In design work, a designer can only set the stage for certain experience to happen, but in the end, it is the user who co-constructs the experience with or through the interaction. In this talk, I will show three recent systems from my group involving users physically in the interaction: the LEGA - a spherical, touch-sensitive, vibrating, hand-carried device allowing you to leave bodily traces for your friends to pick up, EmRoll – a game that takes you through an emotional rollercoaster from intense happy dancing, through scary spider-encounters, to relaxed breathing together with your game buddy, all picked up by sensors and camera-based recognition from the two players interactions, and finally, Affective Health – a system that mirrors your bio-data (pulse, emotional arousal, and movement) back to users, in real-time, to the mobile involving users in bio-feedback loops.
Bio:
Kristina Höök is Professor in Human-Machine Interaction at Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/KTH since 2003. She also upholds a part-time employment at SICS. She started the Mobile Life centre in 2007 - a centre that has now grown into being 50 researchers, working in close contact with industrial partners such as Microsoft Research, Ericsson, Nokia, TeliaSonera and Stockholm City. Her research focuses on bodily and emotional interaction. She has published in high-rated venues such as ACM SIGCHI, DIS, NordiCHI, ToCHI, IJHCS, and the Royal Society in the U.K
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Christine Moscioni