Tensions and Opportunities: Accessing Embodied Experience in HCI through Micro-Phenomenology Workshop at Creativity and Cognition 2026

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This workshop, delivered at the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, explores micro-phenomenology in human–computer interaction. Join us to examine embodied experience through design-led research and dialogue. https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/tensions-and-opportunities-workshop-at-creativity-cognition-conference Call for participation Understanding lived, embodied experience remains a persistent challenge in Human–Computer Interaction. While many HCI methods capture behaviour, evaluation outcomes, or retrospective accounts, the subtle…

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CHI 2026 workshop: Where is the body in desiging through AI? Frictions and opportunities in integrating AI and Soma Design

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For more details on our workshop, visit https://claudianunezpacheco.com/soma-ai-chi2026/ Source top image: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fundhttps://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2025: “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”

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I am pleased to announce that our paper has received an Honourable Mention award at the ACM DIS 2025 Conference in Funchal, Portugal. ⭐ Our article is titled “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”. In our research, we explore how…

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Master’s student research paper presented at CHI2025

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The paper  “Identifying Critical Points of Departure for the Design of Self-Fashioning Technologies” expands on Rebeca’s master’s thesis, which I supervised during my time at KTH. Taking the concept of self-fashioning, we invited other colleagues to take this research one step further, contributing with their experiences and ideas about the future of actualising the self: Rachael…

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Participation in the 2025 Workshop on Design for Tactile and Embodied Learning at Georgia Tech

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I had the pleasure of attending the Workshop on Design for Tactile and Embodied Learning in Atlanta, US, organised by Abigale Stangl and colleagues. She is the Director of MultiSense Studio and an Assistant Professor at the College of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech. The workshop opened up a caring and open space to critically discuss the…

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Master’s student research paper presented at HttF2024

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I am very happy to announce that the paper Designerly Ways of Knowing—Soma Design Meets Industrial Design Thinking has been published at the ACM Digital Library. This paper is particularly special not only because it reveals the tensions between soma design practice and industrial design in the wild but also because it derives from Alice Borg’s…

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Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2024: “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing”

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I am thrilled to announce that our paper “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing” co-authored with Anton Poikolainen Rosén, has been awarded an Honorable Mention at DIS2024! Our paper was recognised as part of the top 5% in an already very competitive conference. In our paper, we introduce felt sense as…

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DIS2024 workshop: “Designing [Im]Material Inventories of Nomadic Belongings”

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Calling the nomads, migrants and foreign designers. We are excited to extend a warm invitation to our upcoming workshop “Designing [Im]Material Inventories of Nomadic Belongings”, where we will engage with and problematise nomadism and impermanence as a possibility for resilience and growth. Through the use of various design methods –including collaborative inventorying, somatic noticing and…

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Opponent in PhD Public defense at EKA: Candidate Dila Demir

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On 19 December 2023, Arife Dila Demir successfully defended her PhD thesis “Extended [Textile] Soma: Somaesthetics of Bodily Discomforts”. Arife Dila Demir was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Supervisors: Prof. Nithikul Nimkulrat (OCAD University), Dr. Kristi Kuusk (Estonian Academy of Arts)External reviewers: Prof. Kristina Höök (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Dr. Vasiliki Tsaknaki (IT…

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Sharing Earthquake Narratives at CHI2023, Hamburg

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My CHI 2023 video presentation of the paper: As interaction designers are venturing to design for others based on autobiographical experiences, it becomes particularly relevant to critically distinguish the designer’s voice from others’ experiences. However, few reports go into detail about how self and others mutually shape the design process and how to incorporate external…

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