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Publications (96)
February 2024
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August 2023
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Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Wheelchair dance is an important form of disability art that is still subject to significant levels of ableism and art exclusion. Wheelchair dancers face challenges finding teachers and choreographers who can accommodate their needs, documenting and sharing choreographies that suit their body shapes and their assistive technologies. In turn, this hinders their ability to share creative expressions. Accessible resources and communication tools could help address these challenges. The goal of this research is the development of a visualization system grounded on Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) that notates movement quality while opening new horizons on perceptions of disabled bodies and the artistic legitimacy of wheelchair dance. The system uses video to identify the body landmarks of the dancer and wheelchair and extracts key features to create visualizations of expressive qualities from LMA basic effort. The current evaluation includes a pilot study with the general public and an online questionnaire targeting professionals to gain feedback supporting practical implementation and real-world deployment. Results from the general public evaluation showed that the visualization was effective in conveying basic effort movement qualities even to a novice audience. Expert consulted via questionnaire stated that the tool could be employed for reflective evaluation, as well as performance augmentation. The LMA visualization tool can support the artistic legitimization of wheelchair dancing through education, communication, performance, and documentation.
November 2022
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Digital technology is playing a significant role in media design which is now increasingly rich and fast. Multiple channels, a wide range of interactive activities are provided to support new communications. Nostalgia which refers to the yearning for the old and the slow, seems to be an opposite side of current mainstream technology design. However, in this paper, we propose that nostalgia has unique power and hidden potential in digital mediated design. We present here a nostalgia-based design methodology for subtle emotional connection, followed by two in-the-field design cases. We would like to dig deeper into the meaning of nostalgia design and open discussions on how factors, such as distance, content-less, slow media, that seem to be negative for emotional communication in fact increase intimacy and contribute to emotional bonding.KeywordsNostalgia designEastern aestheticMediated communicationSlow mediaLDR communicationEmotional design
October 2022
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Art has deep connections with both disability and HCI research. From disabled bodies becoming avatars of novel forms of expression, to artistic work being created as an act of resistance, art has been a powerful tool to subvert ableist narratives. Artistic practices have also helped to inspire, innovate and push the boundaries of HCI, giving rise to new technologies and interaction possibilities. Our paper presents the exploration of the experiences and practices of 17 artists who used wheelchairs for mobility. Through the thematic analysis of interviews, we conceptualize three themes: (1) Personal journeys through art and disability; (2) Social encounters through art, (3) Skills and technology in art making. From these themes, we reflect on how art can help HCI researchers to capture the complexity of the experiences of disability and assistive technology use and how collaboration with disabled artists could help to rethink the design of disruptive artistic technologies.
August 2022
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March 2022
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October 2021
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February 2020
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November 2018
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We present a concept of AURA, an urban personal projection to initiate the communication. In this work, we focus on how to break the ice with strangers through technology in urban public space. The Aura, as an enliven spiritual pet, floats around user's feet. We introduce a simple interaction scenario, attracting a person who comes within personal distance of the user who carries the AURA. To break the ice between strangers, a projected butterfly as the Aura is moved toward a person who comes within 2m of the user, and then back and forth to attract that person. We believe that externalized interactive representation of the user in the form of a spiritual pet can ease and facilitate the communication, serve as a conversation starter, and make the interactions between people more fun.
Citations (38)
... GenAI is also influencing digital embodiment. Xie et al. [17] demonstrate how AI-powered visualization enhances wheelchair dance choreography, expanding accessibility and artistic expression while challenging traditional notions of authorship and artistic interpretation. ...
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March 2024
... Accessible motion-capture video games for wheelchair users have also been developed, some for leisure [6,10] and others for rehabilitation [1]. Visualisations of the movements of dancers with physical disability have also been created, though the visualisations were used to provide "expressive information for movement exploration and quality assessment" [25], rather than within a performance context. ...
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August 2023
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
... In contrast, accessibility research in music performance is more often targeted at novices, often focusing on the design of adaptive interfaces for sound or music generation, or seeking to understand how disabled artist in the music industry engage with existing technologies [22,46,70,72,78], but not on developing and testing new technologies that expand the possibility for disabled musicians to engage with audiences through their bodies as well as the music. This is a missed opportunity, as disabled people have shown significant competencies in mastering complex technologies in real time, and the practices of disabled artists can be a source of radical innovation which should arguably place them at the forefront of new technological developments [6,7,61,94]. This paper presents the results of a collaborative project involving a VDJ artist (i.e the acronym is contraction of the terms video jockey and disc jockey and indicates professionals in the entertainment industry who focus on mixing videos, or other visual effects, as well as music as part of both composition and live performances), with advanced Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and a group of technologists and researchers working on the development of a human augmentation solution combining a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) and robotic arms able to execute a variety of dance moves. ...
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October 2022
... The concept of physiological synchrony refers to the phenomenon by which physiological parameters linked with the action of the autonomic nervous system tend to align between individuals during shared activities, higher degrees of physiological synchrony have been associated with stronger emotional bonds and emotional resonance [1,16,30,49,68,75,86,101,102]. Physiological synchrony and its implications have been the subject of extensive study in a variety of fields encompassing, neuroscience, psychology, sport science, cognitive and behavioural science, medicine, and robotics [68,72,102,106,107]. ...
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August 2022
... Almost 30 years ago, Robert Strong and William Gaver presented three artifacts, Feather, Scent, and Shaker, which were explicitly designed to promote emotional awareness and intimacy over distance [50]. Since then, a multitude of awareness technologies [14,27,54,57] have been proposed and developed, as well as technologies to foster intimate relationships over a distance [12,18,20,52,58,59] or to maintain relatedness among distributed families and friends [17,25,26,32,37]. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the pivotal role of technology in maintaining private relationships and enabling informal communication and relational practices over distance to the attention of a wider public. ...
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March 2022
... Almost 30 years ago, Robert Strong and William Gaver presented three artifacts, Feather, Scent, and Shaker, which were explicitly designed to promote emotional awareness and intimacy over distance [50]. Since then, a multitude of awareness technologies [14,27,54,57] have been proposed and developed, as well as technologies to foster intimate relationships over a distance [12,18,20,52,58,59] or to maintain relatedness among distributed families and friends [17,25,26,32,37]. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the pivotal role of technology in maintaining private relationships and enabling informal communication and relational practices over distance to the attention of a wider public. ...
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October 2021
... Throughout history, the interdependent relationship between humans and scents has continuously evolved (e.g., in religious prayers, aromatherapy, and fashion aesthetics) ( Figure 1). With the development in life sciences, chemistry, information, and hardware technologies in the past two decades, the scent has begun to be applied by scientists and researchers in the field of human-computer interaction as a complex, multifaceted, and highly potent medium of interaction (Kaye, 2001) such as in health management and healing (Amores et al., 2018;Lai & Wing Chung, 2021;Lin et al., 2020), seamless information reminder systems (Dmitrenko et al., , 2017Dobbelstein et al., 2017;Maggioni et al., 2018), driving assistance systems (Dmitrenko et al., 2020;Funato et al., 2009), olfactory and gustatory-enhanced immersive gaming Lai & Wing Chung, 2021;Nakamoto et al., 2008;Ranasinghe et al., 2018), learning and training (Amores Fernandez et al., 2023;Lu et al., 2023;Nilsson et al., 2019), and the recent design of Olfactory Display tools (Brooks & Lopes, 2023;Fei et al., 2024;Lei et al., 2022;Maggioni et al., 2019;. However, unlike human vision and hearing, human olfaction still lacks "basic scents." ...
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February 2020
... Magnetips [12] integrates fingertip tracking and haptic feedback for around-device interaction. Aura [15] presents an inside-out electromagnetic 6-DoF tracking system designed for handheld controllers. Make It Trackable [22] introduces an instant magnetic tracking system using coil-free tiny trackers. ...
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November 2018
... For example, some papers described using technology as an enhancement of connections between individuals, such as the Prayer Wall [82] or the SoulGarden [55], which allow the visualisation of a spiritual support network and the presence of their community despite the lack of a physical connection. Furthermore, wearables, i.e. devices that are worn close to or directly on the surface of the skin, such as the Wearable Aura also can mediate connections between individuals [61], for example, by acting as a conversation starter [132]. Another way of achieving social connectedness was described by research exploring how technology could act as a companion itself, or companion technology in the sense of [76]. ...
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September 2017
... Document level: At this step, the challenge is to classify whether a positive or negative sentiment is conveyed by an entire opinion document (Pang et al. 2002). In the case of product analysis, the process will determine if the analysis represents an overall positive or negative opinion of the product. ...
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November 2016