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AHFE 2017: Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design pp 127–134Cite as

Soma-Deep as a Marker for Idealized Experience

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New haptic technologies have presented the field of modern design practice with new opportunities for body based interactions. In the following paper the author presents a case for a new focus of study, Soma Literacy, centered in the fields of Interaction Design and Experience. Pulling from the fields of somaesthetics (Shustermann), performance as practice (Schwiebert), and pragmatic philosophy (Dewey), the author presents a tier of experience, understood at the soma-level as the center of perception and action. The author proposes a study in soma-literacy, where the participant would be skilled to analyze, interpret, reveal, and make meaning through the bodied content present in all experience. The author then presents initial research in presenting the agenda in a participatory, body-in-motion, course format.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221, USA

    Stephen Neely

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  1. School of Industrial Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    WonJoon Chung

  2. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

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Neely, S. (2018). Soma-Deep as a Marker for Idealized Experience. In: Chung, W., Shin, C. (eds) Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 585. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60495-4_14

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