Designing pneumatic bodily extensions for supporting movement in everyday life
Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in everyday life, aligning with the embodiment theory, so far focused on sensing movement as opposed to facilitating movement. We present PneuMa, a novel wearable system that can facilitate movement in everyday life through pneumatic-based bodily extensions. We showcase the system through three examples: “Pardon?”, moving the ear forward; “Greetings”, moving a hand towards the “Bye-bye” gesture; “Take a break”, moving the hands away from the keyboard, enabling the bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. From the thematic analysis of a field study with 12 participants, we identified three themes: bodily awareness, Perception of the scenarios, and anticipating movement. We discuss our findings in relation to prior research around bodily extensions and embodied interaction to provide strategies to design bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. Ultimately, we hope that our work helps more people profit from the benefits of everyday movement support.
PneuMa Bodily Extensions: A) “Pardon”, B) “Greetings”, and C) "Take a break".
References
2024
PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life
Aryan Saini, Rakesh Patibanda, Nathalie Overdevest, and 2 more authors
In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in everyday life, aligning with the embodiment theory, so far focused on sensing movement as opposed to facilitating movement. We present PneuMa, a novel wearable system that can facilitate movement in everyday life through pneumatic-based bodily extensions. We showcase the system through three examples: "Pardon?", moving the ear forward; "Greetings", moving a hand towards the "Bye-bye" gesture; "Take a break", moving the hands away from the keyboard, enabling the bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. We delve into some findings in relation to prior research around bodily extensions and embodied interaction in the video. Ultimately, we hope that our work helps more people profit from the benefits of everyday movement support.
PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life
Aryan Saini, Rakesh Patibanda, Nathalie Overdevest, and 2 more authors
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2024
Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in everyday life, aligning with the embodiment theory, so far focused on sensing movement as opposed to facilitating movement. We present PneuMa, a novel wearable system that can facilitate movement in everyday life through pneumatic-based bodily extensions. We showcase the system through three examples: "Pardon?", moving the ear forward; "Greetings", moving a hand towards the "Bye-bye" gesture; "Take a break", moving the hands away from the keyboard, enabling the bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. From the thematic analysis of a field study with 12 participants, we identified three themes: bodily awareness, Perception of the scenarios, and anticipating movement. We discuss our findings in relation to prior research around bodily extensions and embodied interaction to provide strategies to design bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. Ultimately, we hope that our work helps more people profit from the benefits of everyday movement support.
@inproceedings{saini_pneuma_2024,author={Saini, Aryan and Patibanda, Rakesh and Overdevest, Nathalie and Van Den Hoven, Elise and Mueller, Florian ‘Floyd’},title={PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life},year={2024},isbn={9798400704024},publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},address={New York, NY, USA},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633349},doi={10.1145/3623509.3633349},booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},articleno={1},numpages={16},keywords={bodily extensions, embodied experiences, embodied interactions, pneumatics},location={Cork, Ireland},series={TEI '24},video={https://youtu.be/MpVxFC3npEc?si=skg393adkMttGE4C}}
