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A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction Design

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A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction Design
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This chapter is not a guide to embodied thinking, but rather a critical call to action. It highlights the deep history of embodied practice within the fields of dance and somatics, and outlines the value of embodied thinking within human-computer interaction (HCI) design and, more specifically, wearable technology (WT) design. What this chapter does not do is provide a guide or framework for embodied practice. As a practitioner and scholar grounded in the fields of dance and somatics, I argue that a guide to embodiment cannot be written in a book. To fully understand embodied thinking, one must act, move, and do. Terms such as embodiment and embodied thinking are often discussed and analyzed in writing; but if the purpose is to learn how to engage in embodied thinking, then the answers will not come from a text. The answers come from movement-based exploration, active trial-and-error, and improvisation practices crafted to cultivate physical attunement to one's own body. To this end, my "call to action" is for the reader to move beyond a text-based understanding of embodiment to active engagement in embodied methodologies. Only then, I argue, can one understand how to apply embodied thinking to a design process.

Date Created
2018
Contributors
  • Rajko, Jessica (Author)
Topical Subject
  • somatics
  • Dance
  • Movement
  • human-computer interaction
  • wearable technology
  • Google glass
Resource Type
Text
Extent
Nine pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
ASU Scholarship Showcase
Identifier
Identifier Type
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Identifier Value
978-1138844308
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50065
Preferred Citation

Rajko, Jessica (2018). A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction Design. In Sayers, J. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (195-203). Routledge.

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  • 2018-07-19 04:11:38
System Modified
  • 2021-10-26 11:23:21
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  • 3 years 6 months ago
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