How bodies matter
Published 26 June 2006
Scott Klemmer, Björn Hartmann, Leila Takayama
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This paper draws on theories of embodiment - from psychology, sociology, and philosophy - synthesizing five themes particularly salient for interaction design: thinking through doing, performance, visibility, risk, and thick practice.
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Our physical bodies play a central role in shaping human experience in the world, understandingof the world, and interactions in the world. This paper draws on theories of embodiment - from psychology, sociology, and philosophy - synthesizing five themes we believe are particularly salient for interaction design: thinking through doing, performance, visibility, risk, and thick practice. We intro-duce aspects of human embodied engagement in the world with the goal of inspiring new interaction design ap-proaches and evaluations that better integrate the physical and computational worlds.
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