PneuMa
Designing pneumatic bodily extensions for supporting movement in everyday life
Prior research around the design of interactive systems has highlighted the benefits of supporting embodiment in everyday life. This resulted in the creation of body-centric systems that leverage movement. However, these advances supporting movement in everyday life, aligning with the embodiment theory, so far focused on sensing movement as opposed to facilitating movement. We present PneuMa, a novel wearable system that can facilitate movement in everyday life through pneumatic-based bodily extensions. We showcase the system through three examples: “Pardon?”, moving the ear forward; “Greetings”, moving a hand towards the “Bye-bye” gesture; “Take a break”, moving the hands away from the keyboard, enabling the bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. From the thematic analysis of a field study with 12 participants, we identified three themes: bodily awareness, Perception of the scenarios, and anticipating movement. We discuss our findings in relation to prior research around bodily extensions and embodied interaction to provide strategies to design bodily extensions that support movement in everyday life. Ultimately, we hope that our work helps more people profit from the benefits of everyday movement support.
You can also put regular text between your rows of images. Say you wanted to write a little bit about your project before you posted the rest of the images. You describe how you toiled, sweated, bled for your project, and then… you reveal its glory in the next row of images.
The code is simple. Just wrap your images with <div class="col-sm">
and place them inside <div class="row">
(read more about the Bootstrap Grid system). To make images responsive, add img-fluid
class to each; for rounded corners and shadows use rounded
and z-depth-1
classes. Here’s the code for the last row of images above:
<div class="row justify-content-sm-center">
<div class="col-sm-8 mt-3 mt-md-0">
{% include figure.html path="assets/img/6.jpg" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded z-depth-1" %}
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 mt-3 mt-md-0">
{% include figure.html path="assets/img/11.jpg" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded z-depth-1" %}
</div>
</div>