Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction
This book shows how HCI designers and practitioners can incorporate a somatic perspective or sensibility into interaction design. It demonstrates how experiential techniques can be used to support design and evaluation of user experience methods within HCI.

Multiple examples are included using case studies to illustrate somatic approaches to the design of technology, contextualising the history of somatic methods within HCI and highlighting the relationships between user experiences and the application of somatic principles.

The benefits and challenges of integrating somatic approaches in a technological context is illustrated and there is coverage of body-based somatic and somaesthetic strategies and how to apply these in research. The differences in epistemological assumptions are identified through contextual practice, discussion and case studies with a strong emphasis on multi-modal examples.
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Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction
This book shows how HCI designers and practitioners can incorporate a somatic perspective or sensibility into interaction design. It demonstrates how experiential techniques can be used to support design and evaluation of user experience methods within HCI.

Multiple examples are included using case studies to illustrate somatic approaches to the design of technology, contextualising the history of somatic methods within HCI and highlighting the relationships between user experiences and the application of somatic principles.

The benefits and challenges of integrating somatic approaches in a technological context is illustrated and there is coverage of body-based somatic and somaesthetic strategies and how to apply these in research. The differences in epistemological assumptions are identified through contextual practice, discussion and case studies with a strong emphasis on multi-modal examples.
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Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction

Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction

by Thecla Schiphorst, Lian Loke
Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction

Experience as Skill: The Somatic Turn in Human-Computer Interaction

by Thecla Schiphorst, Lian Loke

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This book shows how HCI designers and practitioners can incorporate a somatic perspective or sensibility into interaction design. It demonstrates how experiential techniques can be used to support design and evaluation of user experience methods within HCI.

Multiple examples are included using case studies to illustrate somatic approaches to the design of technology, contextualising the history of somatic methods within HCI and highlighting the relationships between user experiences and the application of somatic principles.

The benefits and challenges of integrating somatic approaches in a technological context is illustrated and there is coverage of body-based somatic and somaesthetic strategies and how to apply these in research. The differences in epistemological assumptions are identified through contextual practice, discussion and case studies with a strong emphasis on multi-modal examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030061968
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date: 07/14/2026
Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
Edition description: 1st ed. 2025
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Why Somatics? Embracing Experience as Skill.- The Politics of the Self: Advocating for an Ethical HCI.-Self-Evidence: Mapping the Rise of First-Person within Third-Wave HCI.- Self and Other: Intertwining the Histories of Somatics and HCI.- The Articulate Body: Introducing a Somatically-Attuned Design Framework.- Subjectivity is not a Dirty Word: Transforming Epistemologies of Practice.
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