Embodied design methodologies / New media
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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Some images of our visit to the Einstein Centre in Berlin, where I had the opportunity to present some of my most recent work on foreignness, including the presentation of relevant design methods and a sneak peek at my CHI 2023 talk.
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We invite you to join the Studio on Designing with the Body in Unhabitual Movements using Visual and Textual Elicitation Tools at the ACM International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI’23). Designing with the lived body has gained increasing interest within the HCI and interaction design communities, taking a more holistic and situated approach…
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Watch the talk here EKA’s Sensorial Design Research group organised a design research event at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) aiming to bring knowledge of international researchers to students, researchers, and educators of EKA on the 21st of February, 2023. During this event, I participated as an invited speaker, panellist and peer reviewer for…
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I was invited as a speaker at the conference Interactive Digital Art and Societal Health, which took place in Berlin between the 2nd and 3rd of December, 2022. The series of talks and demos gathered at this event focused on discussing what roles interactive digital art could play in societal health, including the needs of…
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8th October 2022 9.00-17.00Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bodily-experience/home About the Workshop In public spaces, such as urban areas and public transportation, people may experience feelings of insecurity, for example, regarding lack of security and fear of possible criminal intentions from others, which can lead to physical discomfort and (feelings of) unease. In this one-day workshop at the NordiCHI…
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Attending to the challenges of describing first-person experience, this article illustrates different uses of the Focusing method in interaction design and HCI, offering a systematic way of accessing the subtle qualities of lived experiences for design use. In this approach, the implicit bodily knowledge -or felt sense- becomes the material capture of aesthetic experiences used…
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Guest edited by Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, and Vasiliki Tsaknaki, this issue explores the sensory and material experiences of designers, who work with design methods that foreground somatic modes of inquiry and show how these changes could open a door for new opportunities to emphasize the importance of embodied and somatic practices in design…
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I had the pleasure of attending this one-week course on Microphenomenology of Nature hosted by Claire Petitmengin and Marc Zischka, where we explored the connections between the lived experience and nature. One of the aspects I rescue from this trip is the careful examination of our co-constitution with nature from a bodily perspective, demonstrating how…
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About this event This Moment is intended as a creative instance for designers to reflect on what it means to be a foreigner in a globalised world and how creative lessons of foreignness could potentially shape us as designers. The Moment has been structured as follows: 1. Introduction to the Moment 2. Participants’ brief introductions:…
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Claudia Núñez-Pacheco 