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Tracing Conceptions of the Body in HCI: From User to More-Than-Human

Paper by Sarah Homewood, Marika Hedemyr, Maja Fagerberg Ranten, Susan Kozel
Published 2021 by CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Available from ACM Digital Library

This paper traces different conceptions of the body in HCI and identifes a narrative from user to body, body to bodies, and bodies to more-than-human bodies. Firstly, this paper aims to present a broader, updated, survey of work around the body in HCI. The overview shows how bodies are conceptualized as performative, sensing, datafied, intersectional and more-than-human. This paper then diverges from similar surveys of research addressing the body in HCI in that it is more disruptive and ofers a critique of these approaches and pointers for where HCI might go next. We end our paper with recommendations drawn from across the diferent ap- proaches to the body in HCI. In particular, that researchers working with the body have much to gain from the 4th wave HCI approach when designing with and for the body, where our relationships with technologies are understood as entangled and the body is always more-than-human.

Honorable Mention Award, granted by The SIGCHI “Best of CHI” CHI2021 – Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference.

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To cite this article:
Homewood, S., Hedemyr, M., Fagerberg Ranten, M., & Kozel, S. (2021). Tracing Conceptions of the Body in HCI: From User to More-Than-Human. In CHI’ 21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan. (pp-1-12). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445656