Exploring and Materialising Bodily Experiences of Security through Lenses of Feminist HCI practices

TY - GEN

T1 - Exploring and Materialising Bodily Experiences of Security through Lenses of Feminist HCI practices

AU - Beuthel, Janne Mascha

AU - Schaper, Marie Monique

AU - Schuß, Martina

AU - Márquez Segura, Elena

AU - Núñez-Pacheco, Claudia

AU - Riener, Andreas

PY - 2022/10

Y1 - 2022/10

N2 - In public spaces, such as urban areas and public transportation, people may experience feelings of insecurity, for example, regarding lack of security and fear of possible criminal intentions from others, which can lead to physical discomfort and (feelings of) unease. Starting from these challenges, we propose a one-day workshop aimed to explore bodily experiences of security. Together with the workshop participants, we will approach this research space from a feminist perspective, engaging with feminist issues, such as participation, advocacy, pluralism, and embodiment. Through innovative body-centered methods, we will foreground and explore individual and collective sensations of security, and materialize participants' felt experiences and insights in the form of wearable prototypes. Through this workshop, we will reflect on individual and collective experiences of security through making, and elicit design implications for creating secure bodily experiences, which can be informative and inspirational for future research.

AB - In public spaces, such as urban areas and public transportation, people may experience feelings of insecurity, for example, regarding lack of security and fear of possible criminal intentions from others, which can lead to physical discomfort and (feelings of) unease. Starting from these challenges, we propose a one-day workshop aimed to explore bodily experiences of security. Together with the workshop participants, we will approach this research space from a feminist perspective, engaging with feminist issues, such as participation, advocacy, pluralism, and embodiment. Through innovative body-centered methods, we will foreground and explore individual and collective sensations of security, and materialize participants' felt experiences and insights in the form of wearable prototypes. Through this workshop, we will reflect on individual and collective experiences of security through making, and elicit design implications for creating secure bodily experiences, which can be informative and inspirational for future research.

KW - body awareness

KW - embodied experiences

KW - security

KW - wearables

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139876276&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3547522.3547696

DO - 10.1145/3547522.3547696

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85139876276

SN - 9781450394482

BT - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

T2 - 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022

Y2 - 8 October 2022 through 12 October 2022

ER -