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Monday | Mid-Morning | 11:30—12:50
n INVITED TALK | BALLROOM D
SOMAESTHETICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHI
Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Somaesthetics is an interdisciplinary research product devoted to
the critical study and meliorative cultivation of the experience and
use of the living body (or soma) as site of sensory appreciation
(aesthesis) and creative self-stylization. An ameliorative discipline of
both theory and practice, somaesthetics seeks to enrich not only our
discursive knowledge of the body but also our lived somatic
experience and performance; it aims to improve the meaning,
understanding, efficacy, and beauty of our movements and of the
environments to which our actions contribute and from which they
also derive their energies and significance. To pursue these aims,
somaesthetics is concerned with a wide diversity of knowledge forms
and discourses, social practices and institutions, cultural traditions,
values, and bodily disciplines that structure (or could improve) such
somatic understanding and cultivation. As an interdisciplinary
project that is not confined to one dominant academic field,
professional vocabulary, cultural ideology, or particular set of bodily
disciplines, somaesthetics aims to provide an overarching theoretical
structure and a set of basic and versatile conceptual tools to enable
a more fruitful interaction and integration of the very diverse forms
of somatic knowledge currently being practiced and pursued. My
talk at CHI will present the fundamental principles of the
somaesthetic, examine some of its interdisciplinary impact and then
explore its possible applications to the field of interactive design.
About Richard Shusterman: Richard Shusterman is the
Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida
Atlantic University, where he is also Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture:
http://www.fau.edu/bodymindculture/. His primary research focus
is the field of somaesthetics, which evolved in the late nineties from
his work in pragmatist philosophy and aesthetics. Author of Body
Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
(Cambridge University Press, 2008), Shusterman has also written
Surface and Depth (2002); Performing Live (2000); Practicing
Philosophy (1997); Sous l’interprétation (1994), Soma-esthétique et
architecture: une alternative critique (2010), and Pragmatist
Aesthetics (1992, 2000, and translated into fourteen languages).
Formerly chair of the Philosophy Department of Temple University
(Philadelphia), he has held academic appointments in France,
Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan, and has been awarded research
grants from the NEH, Fulbright, ACLS, Humboldt Foundation, and
UNESCO. In 2008 the French government awarded him the rank of
Chevalier in the Order of Academic Palms for his cultural
contributions. His exploratory research in somaesthetics is
informed by his professional practice as a somatic educator and
therapist in the Feldenkrais Method.
30 | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
n TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS | BALLROOM E
CURVES AND MIRAGES: GESTURES AND
INTERACTION WITH NONPLANAR SURFACES
SESSION CHAIR: Per Ola Kristensson, University of St Andrews, UK
PAPER | LightGuide: Projected Visualizations for
Hand Movement Guidance &
Rajinder Sodhi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Hrvoje Benko, Andrew Wilson, Microsoft Research, UK
Describes a new approach to movement guidance, where visual
hints are digitally projected on a user’s hand. Can help users perform
complex movements such as in exercise or playing an instrument.
PAPER | Understanding Flicking on Curved Surfaces
Simon Voelker, Christine Sutter, Lei Wang, Jan Borchers, RWTH
Aachen University, Germany
This paper investigates flicking gestures on curved interactive
surfaces. It provides a mathematical model to estimate the error
users will make when flicking across a curve.
PAPER | MirageTable: Freehand Interaction on a
Projected Augmented Reality Tabletop
Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research, UK
Ricardo Jota, Inesc-ID
Andrew Wilson, Microsoft Research, UK
MirageTable is a novel augmented reality system which enables
instant digitization of physical objects, correct 3D perspective
views, and interaction using bare hands without gloves or trackers.
NOTE | How Screen Transitions Influence Touch and
Pointer Interaction Across Angled Display Arrangements
Fabian Hennecke, Wolfgang Matzke, Andreas Butz, University of
Munich, Germany
User study investigating the effects of screen transitions on touch
and pointer interaction across angled display arrangements. Can
assist developers in understanding how to design novel interactive
display arrangements.
NOTE | How Small Can You Go? Analyzing the Effect of
Visual Angle in Pointing Tasks
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Natasha Bullock-Rest, University of Iowa,
USA
Presents results of a study on pointing performance for targets
occupying small visual angles. Suggests a steep performance
degradation for targets occupying a visual angle below 3 minutes
of arc.