An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Foundations
2.1. Embodied Cognition and Embodied Interaction
2.2. Embodiment in Cognitive Linguistics and Design Research
2.3. Experience with Ambient Media
3. Methodology
3.1. Case Analyses
3.2. Empirical Study on the Piano Staircase
4. Designing Meaningful Experience with Ambient Media
4.1. Pilot Study
- (1)
- Incorporating the installation into an everyday public environment.
- (2)
- Eliciting unexpected experience by designing input–output relations.
- (3)
- Coupling the audience’s bodily actions with sensory feedbacks.
- (4)
- Creating embodied metaphorical mappings and considering the congruency between spatial structures (embodied schemas) and everyday bodily actions.
4.2. Design Ideation
4.3. Ideation Analyses
4.3.1. Analysis Framework
4.3.2. Overall Analysis Results
5. Discussion
5.1. Understanding and Designing Embodied Experience
5.2. Embodied Interaction with Ambient Media
5.3. Implications for Design
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Embodied Schemas and Spatial Features | Container | Path | Orientation (e.g., Up–Down) | Force (e.g., Blockage, Gravitation) |
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Staircase | • | |||
Door | • | |||
Corridor | • | |||
Floor | • |
Criteria | Rubric for Analysis | Level |
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Metaphorical mapping | Level 3: Embodied metaphor and visual metaphor are both constructed in the interaction process. Level 2: Embodied metaphor is constructed in the interaction process. Level 1: Visual metaphor is constructed in the interaction process. | 1–3 |
Bodily engagement | Level 3: Participating in motor interaction through the whole body. Level 2: Participating in motor interaction through parts of the body (e.g., arms, hands). Level 1: Observing a situation by standing or sitting. | |
Unexpectedness | Level 3: All strategies are involved. Level 2: Two of the strategies are involved. Level 1: One of the strategies is involved. Three strategies for triggering unexpectedness: (1) Contrasting input/output (I/O) relations: When the audience performs an action, the output does not match the audience’s expectation (e.g., twisting a shoe results in the distortion of a building). (2) Contrasting physical and virtual elements: Digital media is embedded in the physical space, which leads to a mismatch between tangible reality and virtual reality (e.g., after a physical door is opened, a digital image emerges to show the scene from another city. (3) Visual elements mismatching the content or context (e.g., stairs resembling the shape of piano keys elicit a surprise.) | |
Public space | Level 3: The work is situated in an outdoor public space. Level 2: The work is situated in an indoor public space. Level 1: The work is situated in an indoor semi-public space. |
Criteria | Analysis | Level |
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Idea 2: Reading Door | ||
Metaphorical mapping | The action of opening the door simultaneously triggers a sound like flipping book pages, and the sensory-motor interaction as a source domain is metaphorically mapped onto reading a book (target domain), which constructs a metaphor that opening a physical space is like entering a knowledge space. The door is decorated like a book cover, which is a visual metaphor. | 3 |
Bodily engagement | Whole body is engaged in the interaction with the Reading Door. | 3 |
Unexpectedness | Two strategies are used: The door resembles the visual features of a book cover and a hidden speaker plays a sound of opening book pages as feedback. | 2 |
Public space | The entrance of the library is an outdoor public space. | 3 |
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Tan, L.; Chow, K.K.N. An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2018, 2, 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020013
Tan L, Chow KKN. An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2018; 2(2):13. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020013
Chicago/Turabian StyleTan, Liang, and Kenny K. N. Chow. 2018. "An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media" Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2, no. 2: 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020013
APA StyleTan, L., & Chow, K. K. N. (2018). An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(2), 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020013