Movement-based design is reaching critical mass in HCI, and we can start to identify strategies, similarities and differences in how it is approached. Similarities may include, for example, a strong first person perspective on design, emphasising movement, somatics and aesthetic sensibilities of the designer, as well as starting from the premise that our bodily ways of being in the world are shaped by the ecologies of people, cultural practices and the artefacts we create and use. The workshop will discuss similarities and differences between specific design exemplars; ways of extending on our senses and perception – even creating new senses through technology; social interactions, engaging us to jointly explore movement or touch; endowing machines with their own ‘somatics’; as well as engaging in larger political issues around the body, such as gender perspectives, or challenging the mind-body divide.

The format of the workshop is divided into three activities: first a practical, body-based interaction, second a presentation round where the participants provide brief statements of their design and research position, their latest work and what they see as important topics on an agenda for the future, and third a brainstorming activity to collect an agenda for continued Move to be Moved activities and joint research explorations for the future.

Workshop organisers:

Kristina Höök - Mobile Life @ KTH, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Martin Jonsson - Mobile Life @ KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Ståhl - Mobile Life@SICS, Kista, Sweden

Patrizia Marti - Interaction Design Area, Communication Science Department, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Toni Robertson - Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Dag Svanaes - Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Jakob Tholander - Mobile Life, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

George Poonkhin Khut - UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Thecla Schiphorst - Simon Fraser University, SFU, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lian Loke - Design Lab, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jodi Forlizzi - HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Katherine Isbister - UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States

Sietske Klooster - Department of Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Caroline Hummels - Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Marianne Graves Petersen - Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark