Whole Body Interaction

Whole Body Interaction
Author: David England
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0857294334

Whole Body Interaction is “The integrated capture and processing of human signals from physical, physiological, cognitive and emotional sources to generate feedback to those sources for interaction in a digital environment” (England 2009). Whole Body Interaction looks at the challenges of Whole Body Interaction from the perspectives of design, engineering and research methods. How do we take physical motion, cognition, physiology, emotion and social context to push boundaries of Human Computer Interaction to involve the complete set of human capabilities? Through the use of various applications the authors attempt to answer this question and set a research agenda for future work. Aimed at students and researchers who are looking for new project ideas or to extend their existing work with new dimensions of interaction.

Whole Body Interaction with Public Displays

Whole Body Interaction with Public Displays
Author: Robert Walter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811044570

This book develops valuable new approaches to digital out-of-home media and digital signage in urban environments. It offers solutions for communicating interactive features of digital signage to passers-by. Digital out-of-home media and digital signage screens are becoming increasingly interactive thanks to touch input technology and gesture recognition. To optimize their conversion rate, interactive public displays must 1) attract attention, 2) communicate to passers-by that they are interactive, 3) explain the interaction, and 4) provide a motivation for passers-by to interact. This book highlights solutions to problems 2 and 3 above. The focus is on whole-body interaction, where the positions and orientations of users and their individual body parts are captured by specialized sensors (e.g., depth cameras). The book presents revealing findings from a field study on communicating interactivity, a laboratory on analysing visual attention, a field study on mid-air gestures, and a field study on using mid-air gestures to select items on interactive public displays.

Designing with the Body

Designing with the Body
Author: Kristina Hook
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262348330

Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle. With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with technology are about to change dramatically, incorporating such emerging technologies as shape-changing interfaces, wearables, and movement-tracking apps. A successful interactive tool will allow the user to engage in a smooth, embodied, interaction, creating an intimate correspondence between users' actions and system response. And yet, as Kristina Höök points out, current design methods emphasize symbolic, language-oriented, and predominantly visual interactions. In Designing with the Body, Höök proposes a qualitative shift in interaction design to an experiential, felt, aesthetic stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle. Höök calls this new approach soma design; it is a process that reincorporates body and movement into a design regime that has long privileged language and logic. Soma design offers an alternative to the aggressive, rapid design processes that dominate commercial interaction design; it allows (and requires) a slow, thoughtful process that takes into account fundamental human values. She argues that this new approach will yield better products and create healthier, more sustainable companies. Höök outlines the theory underlying soma design and describes motivations, methods, and tools. She offers examples of soma design “encounters” and an account of her own design process. She concludes with “A Soma Design Manifesto,” which challenges interaction designers to “restart” their field—to focus on bodies and perception rather than reasoning and intellect.

Whole Body Interaction

Whole Body Interaction
Author: David England
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780857294340

Whole Body Interaction is “The integrated capture and processing of human signals from physical, physiological, cognitive and emotional sources to generate feedback to those sources for interaction in a digital environment” (England 2009). Whole Body Interaction looks at the challenges of Whole Body Interaction from the perspectives of design, engineering and research methods. How do we take physical motion, cognition, physiology, emotion and social context to push boundaries of Human Computer Interaction to involve the complete set of human capabilities? Through the use of various applications the authors attempt to answer this question and set a research agenda for future work. Aimed at students and researchers who are looking for new project ideas or to extend their existing work with new dimensions of interaction.

Interaction Design and Children

Interaction Design and Children
Author: Juan Pablo Hourcade
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2008
Genre: Communication and technology
ISBN: 1601981287

Interaction Design and Children surveys the research on children's cognitive and motor development, safety issues related to technologies and design methodologies and principles. It also provides an overview of current research trends in the field of interaction design and children and identifies challenges for future research.

Co-Operative Action

Co-Operative Action
Author: Charles Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521866332

This book investigates how language, embodiment, objects, and settings in historically shaped communities combine, and form human actions.

Interaction Techniques and Technologies in Human-Computer Interaction

Interaction Techniques and Technologies in Human-Computer Interaction
Author: Constantine Stephanidis
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2024-08-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1040088953

This book offers a thorough exploration of interaction design by examining various technologies, interaction techniques, styles, and devices. This book • Assists readers in acquiring a deep understanding of diverse ways humans interact with computer technologies and in selecting the most suitable approach for various interactive scenarios. • Introduces cutting‐edge interaction techniques, including multimodal and gesture‐based interaction, wearables, haptic, speech and sound‐based interaction, embodied interaction, and more. • Advances beyond traditional interfaces to large and multiscreen interactions, proxemics, brain‐computer interfaces, affective computing and Extended Reality. This book will appeal to individuals interested in Human-Computer Interaction research and applications.

Symbiotic Interaction

Symbiotic Interaction
Author: Luciano Gamberini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319577530

This book is published open access under a CC BY license.​ This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in October 2016. The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The idea of symbiotic systems put forward in this workshop capitalizes on the computers’ ability to implicitly detect the users goals, preferences or/and psycho-physiological states and thereby enhancing human-computer interaction (HCI). The papers present an overview of the symbiotic relationships between humans and computers with emphasis on user-driven research on symbiotic systems, adaptive systems, implicit input data, physiological computing and BCI, but also on understanding the nature of the interdependence and agency between computers and humans more broadly.

Touch in Social Interaction

Touch in Social Interaction
Author: Asta Cekaite
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000069583

Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The authors focus on how different forms of touch are interactionally organized in everyday, institutional, and professional practices, showing how touch is multimodally achieved in social interaction, how it acquires its significance, how it is embedded in the current activity and in its social context, and how it is systematically intertwined with talk, facial expressions, and body posture. Including work by a wide range of renowned researchers, this volume provides rich visual illustrations of situations featuring touch as a social and intersubjective practice. The studies make a compelling contribution to the field by clearly examining and demonstrating the social meaning of touch for the participants in social interaction in a broad range of contexts. Presenting a new methodology for the study of touch, this is key reading for all researchers and scholars working in conversation analysis, multimodality, and related areas.

Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Techniques and Environments

Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Techniques and Environments
Author: Julie A. Jacko
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2011-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642216048

This four-volume set LNCS 6761-6764 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011, jointly with 8 other thematically similar conferences. The revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on touch-based and haptic interaction, gaze and gesture-based interaction, voice, natural language and dialogue, novel interaction techniques and devices, and avatars and embodied interaction.