Azalea: Co-experience in remote dialog through diminished reality and somaesthetic interaction design
Paper in proceeding, 2021

We introduce Azalea: a design to enrich remote dialog by diminishing externalities, created through a process informed by somaesthetics. Azalea is a tactile cushion that envelops a smartphone running a bespoke app. A pair of Azaleas mediate an embodied co-experience between remote interlocutors via a motion-driven soundscape and audio-driven visuals. While most designs for enriching remote communication increase dimensionality and fdelity of modalities, Azalea diminishes distractions and serves an abstract medium for co-experiencing embodied information. We present the theoretical foundations and design tactics of Azalea, and characterize the experience through a qualitative empirical study. Our fndings culminated in 12 qualities, supporting 5 themes with design implications that contribute to (1) a design ethos of diminished reality and (2) an expansion of somaesthetic HCI towards expression and communication.

Smartphone sacrifce.

Embodiment

Remote communication

Somaesthetics

Embodied information

Author

Sjoerd Hendriks

Student at Chalmers

Simon Mare

Student at Chalmers

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

Mehmet Aydin Baytas

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings


9781450380966 (ISBN)

2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Virtual, Online, Japan,

Subject Categories

Design

Interaction Technologies

Human Computer Interaction

DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445052

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