Designing the ground for pleasurable experience

In this paper we describe our research on how to design for perceptual crossing between person and artefact. We present the design-research process, the design and evaluation of the designed artefact PeP+, short for perception pillar plus, and the generated design relevant knowledge. In our previous research we formulated a number of design notions, namely Focus the Senses, Active Behaviour Object, Subtleness, Reaction to External Event, Detecting Active Behaviour Subject, Reflecting Contextual Noise and Course of Perception in Time. These notions are relevant for designing perceptive activity in an artefact to allow for perceptual crossing between a person and this artefact. The person is able to get the feeling of sharing a common space with the artefact: to feel involved. To further investigate these design notions we reconsidered and implemented them in the design of PeP+. We discuss how the different design notions are applied in the artefact and show their relevance in an experiment. In this experiment we compare three behaviours, namely random, following and active, of PeP+ that are the result of the development of the design notions. The experiment gave insights into the development of the design notions and the experience of the person. This research uses phenomenology as a theoretical framework. Theory is used as inspiration and is the basis for synthesis.

2007

La comunicación interpersonal requiere más que solamente palabras, involucra emociones. En términos generales las emociones pueden ser vistas como estados internos complejamente organizados. El Awareness de estos estados permitiría a los seres humanos evaluar la información social y desarrollar inteligencia social estratégica y, por lo tanto, las acciones cotidianas estarían teñidas de significado social y emocional. Este artículo reporta una experiencia que busca permitir un diálogo basado en emociones expresadas, capturadas y transmitidas entre diversos participantes usando interfaces tangibles. Además, se explota el significado social de objetos físicos y cotidianos como un portarretratos, con el fin de crear interfaces afectivas entre usuarios dispersos geográficamente. En este artículo se describe un dispositivo que permite un tipo de Awareness emocional apoyando la interacción interpersonal y afectiva entre personas distantes geográficamente.

In this paper we explain and interpret theories on perception and indicate how they can inform design. The driving question is how to augment perceived emotional value in design. Based on these theories we state that subjects need similar perceptive bodies, i.e. perceive by the same senses, to be able to perceive the emotional content of reciprocal perception. A basic experiment shows this effect and gives insights on how to design an object that could restore this sharing and understanding between subjects perceiving a scene with different perceptual senses. These insights are used to analyze different designs. In all these case studies the users are unable to naturally perceive reciprocal perception. The first case study is a direct implementation of the theory. User explorations with this prototype show the importance of embodiment in perception. We further investigated this issue in a second case study. This second design investigates the influence of embodiment on the perception of emotional value through direct haptic communication using a mediator. The third example also explores a mediator for perception between users but focuses on auditory stimuli. Finally we show a novel application based on the theory.

2010

物性研究, 2009

Communication is one of the most fundamental needs and desires of most organisms, especially humans. Media bas made advances in many ways, for example allowing comnnmieafion over long distances including sound, voice, and text The advent of the Internet, broadband, virtual worlds, and mobile devices allows remote communication through screens (providing audio/visual communication). even while on the move, however we can have a lack of understanding of real feelings between the sender and receiver. As described in previous research 1 , the metaphor of communicating through a screen or window limits the sense of immersion and limits the ability for humans to communicate effectively. In traditional human communications, body gestures and touch 2 can sometimes more deeply explain the intended mind and provide intrinsic infonnation, which makes for a more rich communication exchange. Furthermore, we often cotmnunicate emotionally using all the senses simultaneously, including sight, touch, sound, but also through taste and smell, such as sharing a meal together or cooking for a partner. We thus need to create ftmda.mentally new forms of media to connect humans in the physical world and through the virtual world co-space, not just in the transmission of information and verbal communication. but through meaning and nonverbal communication to increase 1he sense of t.elepresence using all the senses. We believe this will allow more opportunities for people to make meaningful exchanges using media in the co-space. As a fundamental aim of this research, we also want to use these new communication media to enhance positive and happy communication through a novel cute filter for co-space communication which helps bring interesting content and increases happiness through hwnor, unexpected delights and meaningful exchanges. This research will strive towards those aims through a combination of fundamental technology and human computer interaction research.

2011

Tactile and haptic interaction is everywhere these days, and meant to become even more present in the years to come. Haptic devices are intuitive and have considerably increased the level of pleasure for users. However, some recent articles underline the lack of reliability of gestural interfaces in terms of function. Weaving from phenomenology, architectural theory and the works of James J. and David Katz [1925] on tactile perception, this essay argues that in tactile devices as they are designed today, the sense of touch is used mostly as a replacement of artificial tools, and restricted to the hand only -a mechanical approach which overrides the most powerful affordances of haptics. It claims that electronic products struggle to unveil the full potential of tactile interaction because, even though touch is used, the design strategy remains a visual one, and suggests that if we develop a tactile strategy instead, we will create deeper aesthetic experiences and increase pleasure for the users.

For several years, we have been developing a system of perceptual supplementation (Tactos) so as to render spatialized digital information accessible to users with visual deficiencies. After having validated this device in experimental situations and in practical use, we now propose to connect several Tactos systems in a network, so as to allow for access to shared digital spaces via the tactile modality (Intertact). This opening up of previously individual use to collective use makes it possible to conceive digital spaces designed for tactile interaction, by proposing practical, pedagogical and gaming functionalities. This new possibility of tactile interaction opens the way to the production of a technical aid for visually impaired persons with a social dimension. At the same time, the design of shared tactile spaces goes together with a fundamental reflection concerning perceptual interactions. We therefore propose an experimental study in order to provide the necessary steps to characterize the processes of mutual engagement in the interactions. The first results suggest that these processes seem to constitute a mutual dynamics, which is the basis for an active co-construction of meaning.

In this paper we describe our research on how to design for perceptive activity in artifacts in order for perceptual crossing between subject and artifact to happen. We base our research on the phenomenology of perception [19] and on ecological psychology [10]. Perceptual crossing is believed to be essential to share perception and thereby to feel involved in the situation [5,15]. We propose a theoretical model in which perceptive connections between user, artifact and event are presented. We designed an artifact to function as physical hypotheses [9] and show the design relevance of the model. In an experiment we investigate how the user’s feeling of involvement is influenced in relation to differentiations of the proposed theoretical model. The results of our experiment show that indeed perceptual crossing between user and artifact influences the user’s feeling of involvement with the artifact in their common space. We conclude with describing several design notions important for designing for perceptive activity in artifacts.

The 8th International …, 2009

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of social interfaces as a new form of media to connect humans in the physical world by means of the virtual world by providing "caring communication." We propose hugging and loving communication interfaces as well as conceptual frameworks for reinforcing advantages of the tactile sense of the skin to exchange feelings in a remote caring communication. The hugging communication interface provides physical interaction in a remote communication between humans by enabling to hug one another through a hugging input device and a wearable hug reproducing jacket. In this interface, we have examined the human brain activity when using computer mediated touch devices compared with real physical touch. The objective is to prove that a computer mediated touch can produce a similar affective response on humans relative to a real physical touch. The loving communication interface aims to develop the functionalities yielding a new form of intimate relationship with robots and virtual entities exploring the concept and possibilities of human love. Furthermore, a conceptual framework for a more accurate tactile feeling interaction and a platform for kissing interaction are proposed as well.

2017

Silvennoinen, Johanna Maria Apperceiving Visual Elements in Human-technology Interaction Design Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2017, 83 p. (+ included articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing ISSN 1456-5390; 261) ISBN 978-951-39-7001-7 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-7002-4 (PDF) Visual design of technological artefacts is an integral part of peoples’ experiences in technology-interaction. Visual product properties are capable of eliciting affective responses and multisensorial experiences in humantechnology interaction. Current research in the field of human-technology interaction focuses on visual, emotional and multisensory aspects of interaction in addition to functionality and usability. However, the focus has not been on how performative aspects of visual elements affect technology-interaction as a cognitive sense making process shaping human experiences. To design technological contact points to be made sense of, the substance of visual representations requires clarification to ...