What can Doodles on the Arm teach us about On-Body Interaction?
Late-Breaking Works: Novel Interactions
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Strohmeier, Paul
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Carrascal, Juan Pablo
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Hornbæk, Kasper
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.2726-2735
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: The use of the skin as interaction surface is gaining popularity in the HCI
community. To offer an alternative perspective on how we might design on-body
interactions, we conducted a questionnaire asking if, how, and why people mark
their skin. We found that visibility and ease of access were important factors
for choosing to mark the body. We also found that while some participants
consider marking the body as a private activity, most participants perceive
such markings as a public display. This tension between the personal nature of
on-body interaction and the skin as a public display, as well as hedonic uses
of body markings, present interesting design challenges.