Affordances of Symbiosis - Rethinking interaction and the immeasurable potential of the body in the age of ubiquitous computing.

March 5-6 2015

Bauhaus University

Weimar, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS:

http://www.palindrome.de/CFP_Weimar_2015.doc

The Mouse has been in use for the last 50 years as the main interaction device of the computer. Although HCI has been well-established as a branch of study starting from 80’s, only lately did our relation to computers start changing with mobile devices’ touch screens.  Meanwhile, computing has become ubiquitous and, while still imprecise, increasingly we are interacting with them based on bodily control, from public doors to TV control to interactive art works.

The teapot has a handle, the mouse has a shape that fits in the palm, books have pages to turn, while computer interaction is becoming increasingly based not only on physical objects that reduce movement to very discrete traceable parameters, but on bodily gestures captured by cameras and sensors.

How can we reinvent affordances of the body in its continuous motion while challenging the reductive approach of ubiquitous computing? 

Topics:

• rethinking digital/physical affordances in the posthuman/cybernetic era
• digital affordances, ubiquitous surveillance and control - affordances of capture and prediction
• digital affordances and movement capture/reduction - the interface
• digital affordances and affective production - emoticon culture and ubiquitous commercial music
• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, AI, robotics, videogaming - affordances of simulation
• screens, keyboards, mouses, cameras - expanding the renaissance paradigm & control affordances
• visual affordances and the fixation of perception
• manual affordances and subjective control
• ubiquitous computing and mobile devices - invisible affordances of control
• perceptual history of digital affordances, from Greek theatre architecture and Euclidean geometry, to Renaissance perspective, cameras, mechanism and information.
• wearables, internet of things, smart homes and the new landscape of digital affordances - the new revolution of control and ubiquitous surveillance
• genetics and epigenetics as evolutionary potentials for interaction
• nanoaffordances
• embodiment in the digital era - software and hardware as embodied affordances
• perceptual affordances and sensory hierarchies: vision, hearing, touch, crossmodal and multimodal approaches
• enactive cognition and affordance theories
• affordances and embodied knowledge
• interaction and intra-action in affordance-design
• towards a new ecology of affordances - ethics of perception beyond visual domination
• diffuse/indeterminate affordances and openended relational ecologies
• towards an architecture of indeterminate affordances
• non-functional design, indeterminate architecture and diffuse affordances
• interaction, palpability and synaesthesia
• affordances of crossmodal sensing
• interactive environments and inclusion

SUBMISSIONS:  

Please send an abstract of your submission, along with a short biography, to:   conference@metabody.eu.