The Digital Corporeal Turn

Date(s): Wednesday 20th January 2010 (12:15-13:15)
Contact: Samantha Stapleford Tel: 0115 9514225 Email: samantha.stapleford@nottingham.ac.uk
Description: Speaker: Professor Kristina Höök
Professor Kristina Höök has been a full professor at Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University/KTH since February 2003. She leads the Mobile Life Center and holds a part-time position at Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). The focus of her group is on social and affective interaction, narrative intelligence, in mobile settings. Methodwise, she works from a user-centred design perspective. Höök and her research group have been exploring the idea of involving users both physically and cognitively in what they name an “affective loop”. The idea of an affective loop is for users to step by step interpret, become influenced, imitate and be involved with an (computer or mobile) application, both physically and cognitively. In this talk, Kristina will discuss the new design qualities and the kinds of challenges we meet when designing for physical, emotional, and bodily involvement. She will examplify with systems that she has built (or is building) in her lab, such as eMoto, mobile emotional messaging using gesture, Affective Diary, a way to remember your bodily and social experiences, and Affective Health, a mobile service empowering users to deal with stress.

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