SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits

Qiao Wang; Grisha Coleman; Pavan Turaga; Todd Ingalls

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581339

SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits

Qiao Wang, Grisha Coleman, Pavan Turaga, Todd Ingalls

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Abstract

We propose SomaTech, a Kinect-based system that encourages users to expand understanding and awareness of their everyday movements. The system creates real-time auditory feedback based on the user's whole action, aiming toward re-education of habitual, potentially unsound movement patterns which are often ingrained within the brain. To do this, we draw inspiration from the field of somatics, which has well-studied prophylactic benefits. Our initial evaluation shows promising results that users become more aware of movement choices and are able to improve their efficiency after using the system.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1765-1770
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581339
State	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: Apr 26 2014 → May 1 2014

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	4/26/14 → 5/1/14

Keywords

Awareness
Exploration
Interface
Kinect
Learning
Movement
Somatics
Sonification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Wang, Q., Coleman, G., Turaga, P., & Ingalls, T. (2014). SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits. In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1765-1770). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581339

SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits. / Wang, Qiao; Coleman, Grisha; Turaga, Pavan et al.
CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 1765-1770 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Wang, Q, Coleman, G, Turaga, P & Ingalls, T 2014, SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits. in CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1765-1770, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4/26/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581339

Wang Q, Coleman G, Turaga P, Ingalls T. SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits. In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 1765-1770. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2559206.2581339

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