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Tracing Conceptions of the Body in HCI: From User to More-Than-Human
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This paper traces different conceptions of the body in HCI and identifies 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 offers a critique of these approaches and pointers for where HCI might go next. We end our paper with recommendations drawn from across the different approaches 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.
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- Authors
- Homewood, S., Hedemyr, M., Fagerberg Ranten, M., & Kozel, S.
- Affiliations
- IT University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Malmö University (SE)
- Roskilde University Dept. of People and Technology, Denmark
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2021-05-06
- Pages
- 1-12
- OpenAlex
- W3160494047
- Cited by
- 145
- References
- 111
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 14.56
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- RUCforsk (Roskilde University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Keywords
- conceptions of the body, performative body, intersectionality, entanglement, user-centered design
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