How the floor can facilitate self-sensing and inspire somaesthetic technology design

Abstract

This is a vignette from the following book chapter:

Ullmer, B., Shaer, O., Mazalek, A., & Hummels, C. (2022). Aesthetics of TEI. In Weaving Fire into Form: Aspirations for Tangible and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544564.3544575

In this short piece, I illustrate how deceptively basic artifacts can facilitate self-sensing, and examining how they do so can lead to some interesting insights on designing for embodied interaction, using the floor as an example.