Outputs (5)

Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Schneiders, E., Martinez Avila, J. P., Caleb-Solley, P., Brundell, P. R., Castle-Green, S., Zhou, F., Garrett, R., Höök, K., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., & Tennent, P. (2025, March). Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Melbourne, Australia

As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artistic-exploration of how dancers, working as part of a multidisciplinary... Read More about Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction.

Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance (2023)
Journal Article
Whatley, S., Benford, S., Marsh, K., Zhou, F., Ashcroft, I., Tennent, P., O'Brien, W., & Erhart, T. (2023). Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19(3), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2023.2196884

This paper emerges from an interdisciplinary collaboration between prosthesis-using disabled dance artists, computer scientists, dance researchers and engineers to explore the transformative potential of digital technologies to co-create aestheticall... Read More about Personalising prosthetics: digital interventions in disability and dance.

Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Benford, S. D., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., Ashcroft, I., Erhart, T., O'Brien, W., & Tennent, P. (2023, April). Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics. Presented at CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

There is a trend for handcrafting bespoke prostheses that embody their wearers' aesthetic tastes and identities. We explore how this might be extended by enabling users to co-design with algorithms. We report a design-led exploration (Figure 1) in wh... Read More about Beyond Skin Deep: Generative Co-Design for Aesthetic Prosthetics.

Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case (2021)
Journal Article
Höök, K., Benford, S., Tennent, P., Tsaknaki, V., Alfaras, M., Martinez Avila, J., Li, C., Marshall, J., Daudén Roquet, C., Sanches, P., Ståhl, A., Umair, M., Windlin, C., & Zhou, F. (2021). Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 28(6), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462448

We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. However, as w... Read More about Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case.

Articulating Soma Experiences Using Trajectories (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tennent, P., Höök, K., Benford, S., Tsaknaki, V., Ståhl, A., Dauden Roquet, C., Windlin, C., Sanches, P., Marshall, J., Li, C., Pablo Martinez Avila, J., Alfaras, M., Umair, M., & Zhou, F. (2021, May). Articulating Soma Experiences Using Trajectories. Presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), Yokohama, Japan

In this paper, we reflect on the applicability of the concept of trajectories to soma design. Soma design is a first-person design method which considers users’ subjective somatic or bodily experiences of a design. Due to bodily changes over time, so... Read More about Articulating Soma Experiences Using Trajectories.