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127818 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50065 <p>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.</p> 978-1138844308 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2018 Nine pages eng Rajko, Jessica Text <p>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.</p> somatics Dance Movement human-computer interaction wearable technology Google glass A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction Design