This paper traces different conceptions of the body in HCI and identifies a narrative from user to body, body to bodies, and bodies to more-than-human bodies. Firstly, this paper aims to present a broader, updated, survey of work around the body in HCI. The overview shows how bodies are conceptualized as performative, sensing, datafied, intersectional and more-than-human. This paper then diverges from similar surveys of research addressing the body in HCI in that it is more disruptive and offers a critique of these approaches and pointers for where HCI might go next. We end our paper with recommendations drawn from across the different approaches to the body in HCI. In particular, that researchers working with the body have much to gain from the 4th wave HCI approach when designing with and for the body, where our relationships with technologies are understood as entangled and the body is always more-than-human.
Tracing Conceptions of the Body in HCI: From User to More-Than-Human
Sarah Homewood,Marika Hedemyr,Maja Fagerberg Ranten,S. Kozel
Published 2021 in International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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2021
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International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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2021-05-06
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Sociology, Computer Science
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