Corseto: A Kinesthetic Garment for Designing, Composing for, and Experiencing an Intersubjective Haptic Voice
Paper in proceeding, 2023

We present a novel intercorporeal experience - an intersubjective haptic voice. Through an autobiographical design inquiry, based on singing techniques from the classical opera tradition, we created Corsetto, a kinesthetic garment for transferring somatic reminiscents of vocal experience from an expert singer to a listener. We then composed haptic gestures enacted in the Corsetto, emulating upper-body movements of the live singer performing a piece by Morton Feldman named Three Voices. The gestures in the Corsetto added a haptics-based 'fourth voice' to the immersive opera performance. Finally, we invited audiences who were asked to wear Corsetto during live performances. Afterwards they engaged in micro-phenomenological interviews. The analysis revealed how the Corsetto managed to bridge inner and outer bodily sensations, creating a feeling of a shared intercorporeal experience, dissolving boundaries between listener, singer and performance. We propose that 'intersubjective haptics' can be a generative medium not only for singing performances, but other possible intersubjective experiences.

shape changing interfaces

Robotic textiles

machine learning

haptics

somaesthetic interaction design

micro-phenomenology

voice

Author

Ozgun Kilic Afsar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Yoav Luft

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Kelsey Cotton

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Ekaterina R. Stepanova

Simon Fraser University

Claudia Núñez-Pacheco

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Rebecca Kleinberger

Northeastern University China

Fehmi Ben Abdesslem

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Hiroshi Ishii

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Kristina Höök

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

181
9781450394215 (ISBN)

2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Hamburg, Germany,

Subject Categories

Media and Communication Technology

Human Computer Interaction

Music

Robotics

DOI

10.1145/3544548.3581294

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