Designing Drone Chi: unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction

Joseph La Delfa; Mehmet Aydin Baytaş; Emma Luke; Ben Koder; Florian "Floyd" Mueller

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395589

Designing Drone Chi: unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction

Joseph La Delfa, Mehmet Aydin Baytaş, Emma Luke, Ben Koder, Florian "Floyd" Mueller

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

Drone Chi is a Tai Chi inspired human-drone interaction experience. As a design research project, situated within somaesthetic interaction design, where a central topic is cultivating bodily and sensory appreciation to improve one's quality of life. Drone Chi investigates the potential of autonomous micro-quadcopters as a design material for somaesthetic HCI. Through a quasi-chronological account of the design process, this pictorial articulates how the sensory experiences of Tai Chi were integrated into Drone Chi. Taking a slow and open-ended design research approach, we iteratively developed the project through somaesthetic, product design and engineering perspectives and drew heavily on design analogies and imagery for inspiration. This elevated the influence of the soma amongst narrow engineering parameters and usability requirements. This pictorial serves as a reflective resource for designers who are experimenting with merging their native discipline with someasthetic interaction design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Editors	Will Odom, Audrey Desjardins, Marianne Graves Peterson
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	575-586
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395589
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Designing Interactive Systems 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 https://dis.acm.org/2020/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3357236 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Designing Interactive Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	DIS 2020
Country	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2020/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3357236 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Drones
Gestural interaction
Human-drone interaction
Movement
Soma design
somaesthetic appreciation
somaesthetics
tai chi

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10.1145/3357236.3395589

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La Delfa, J., Baytaş, M. A., Luke, E., Koder, B., & Mueller, F. F. (2020). Designing Drone Chi: unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction. In W. Odom, A. Desjardins, & M. Graves Peterson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 575-586). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395589

La Delfa, Joseph ; Baytaş, Mehmet Aydin ; Luke, Emma ; Koder, Ben ; Mueller, Florian "Floyd". / Designing Drone Chi : unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. editor / Will Odom ; Audrey Desjardins ; Marianne Graves Peterson. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. pp. 575-586

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Designing Drone Chi : unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction. / La Delfa, Joseph; Baytaş, Mehmet Aydin; Luke, Emma; Koder, Ben; Mueller, Florian "Floyd".

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ed. / Will Odom; Audrey Desjardins; Marianne Graves Peterson. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 575-586.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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La Delfa J, Baytaş MA, Luke E, Koder B, Mueller FF. Designing Drone Chi: unpacking the thinking and making of somaesthetic human-drone interaction. In Odom W, Desjardins A, Graves Peterson M, editors, Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. p. 575-586 https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395589