New article: Sensory Bodystorming for Collocated Physical Training Design

Abstract

Although the use of technology to support physical training has been gaining traction in Human-Computer Interaction, the design space of sensory augmentations to improve and support physical training remains narrow. To help open this design space in the domain of collocated instructed physical training, the authors first present Sensory Bodystorming, a hybrid ideation method influenced by material and embodied approaches to ideation.

Sensory Bodystorming targets the generation of ideas that support, and are underpinned by, a rich and nuanced sensorial experience. Ideas are generated through physically engaging with evocative sensorial stimuli elicited by ideation probes featuring diverse material qualities. Secondly, they present ideas resulting from three Sensory Bodystorming sessions that extend prior sensory augmentation works in the domain. Lastly, the authors identify interesting research and design directions based on prior works and their own.

Sensory Bodystorming for Collocated Physical Training Design

Laia Turmo Vidal is a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.

Elena Márquez Segura is a researcher at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.

Annika Waern is professor in human computer interaction at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.