HeartSway: Exploring Biodata as Poetic Traces in Public Space
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| author | Huang, Zeyu Guo, Zhifan Li, Xingyu Ma, Xiaojuan Howell, Noura |
| author_facet | Huang, Zeyu Guo, Zhifan Li, Xingyu Ma, Xiaojuan Howell, Noura |
| contents | Human traces scattered across urban landscapes can signify our everyday lives and societal vibrancy in subtle and poetic forms. In this paper, we explore how designed technology can engage biodata as evocative traces. To this end, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of HeartSway, an interactive hammock that captures a user's heart rate and micro-movements as traces and replays them as an embodied experience for the next visitor. Through a qualitative field study (N=10), we find that HeartSway evokes feelings of connection, curiosity about prior users, and appreciation for shared human vitality. Our work contributes to understanding anonymous archival biodata as a design material for experiential urban traces. We offer design considerations for intimate asynchronous encounters between strangers in public spaces and for reimagining public amenities. |
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| spellingShingle | HeartSway: Exploring Biodata as Poetic Traces in Public Space Huang, Zeyu Guo, Zhifan Li, Xingyu Ma, Xiaojuan Howell, Noura Human-Computer Interaction J.5; K.4.0 Human traces scattered across urban landscapes can signify our everyday lives and societal vibrancy in subtle and poetic forms. In this paper, we explore how designed technology can engage biodata as evocative traces. To this end, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of HeartSway, an interactive hammock that captures a user's heart rate and micro-movements as traces and replays them as an embodied experience for the next visitor. Through a qualitative field study (N=10), we find that HeartSway evokes feelings of connection, curiosity about prior users, and appreciation for shared human vitality. Our work contributes to understanding anonymous archival biodata as a design material for experiential urban traces. We offer design considerations for intimate asynchronous encounters between strangers in public spaces and for reimagining public amenities. |
| title | HeartSway: Exploring Biodata as Poetic Traces in Public Space |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction J.5; K.4.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11701 |