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Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction

Authors :
Benford, Steve
Ramchurn, Richard
Marshall, Joe
Wilson, Max L.
Pike, Matthew
Martindale, Sarah
Hazzard, Adrian
Greenhalgh, Chris
Tennent, Paul
Walker, Brendan
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis Open, 2021.

Abstract

As Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) engages with technologies that sense and actuate the body, there is a need to reconsider the human bodily experience. We present three case studies that each involve different forms of bodily experience: a breath-controlled amusement ride, a brain-controlled film, and an interactive musical duet with a physically actuated piano. We introduce a conceptual framework to describe how control becomes contested between human and computer in such experiences, using the three dimensions of: surrender of control, self-awareness of control, and looseness of control. We reveal how our experiences took users on journeys through control that traversed the space of these dimensions. We propose that our framework is not only relevant to playful cultural experiences, such as those charted in our case studies, but can also inform the design of embodied interaction more widely by emphasising the human experience of control when engaging with autonomous and bodily-focused systems, from future robots and vehicles to today’s gaze, speech and gestural interfaces.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
07370024 and 15327051
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.core.ac.uk....8444e8184ed714dbf045467e98c76f21