Making sense of body and space through full-body interaction design: a 
case study

Schaper, Marie-Monique; Parés, Narcís, 1966-

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2935992

Making sense of body and space through full-body interaction design: a case study

Citació

Schape MM, Pares N. Making sense of body and space through full-body interaction design: a case study. In: Proceedings of IDC2016. The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children; 2016 Jun 21-24; Manchester, United Kingdom. New York: ACM; 2016: p. 613-8. DOI: 10.1145/2930674.2935992

Resum

Research based on the embodied cognition framework proposes the use of physicality and spatiality to promote learning. Nevertheless, methods to include children in the design of Full-Body Interaction Learning Environments often neglect to properly integrate the notion of body and space. In this paper, we describe a participatory design process in which we focused on how children can be encouraged to pay attention to their own body, to proxemics and to embodied constraints of the environment. We explored how this awareness may inform children's design choices for a Full-Body Interaction Learning Environment for public spaces. Our findings indicate that our approach promoted children's awareness towards bodily and spatial aspects of their proposals. Our work contributes to the reflection upon the use of bodystorming and theater-based techniques in two contexts: (1) in a simulated environment of the experience and (2) in physical spaces in situ.

Descripció

Comunicació i póster presentats a la International Conference on Interaction Design and Children celebrada a Manchester (Regne Unit) del 21 al 24 de juny de 2016.