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) |
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| Title of host publication | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 1765-1770 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781450324748 |
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| Publication status | 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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| Other | 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 |
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| Country | Canada |
| City | Toronto, ON |
| Period | 4/26/14 → 5/1/14 |
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Keywords
- Awareness
- Exploration
- Interface
- Kinect
- Learning
- Movement
- Somatics
- Sonification
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Software
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Wang, Q., Coleman, G., Turaga, P., & Ingalls, T. (2014). SomaTech: An exploratory interface for altering movement habits. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (pp. 1765-1770). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581339