This biannual course (CIU170/DIT102) will run again starting January 2012, as a part of the Interaction Design and Technologies programme, Chalmers.

The projects were exhibited at 3:e Våningen, January 14-16 2011 with an opening on the Friday night (6-8 pm) and opening hours on Saturday and Sunday (12 -4pm). Five projects were displayed including bodily sensing, smell, hearing, garments, devices, and brand new bodily experiences.

Visit the exhibition: Augmented Bodies at 3:e Våningen.


Course guest lecturers:

'Sketching haptics' workshop
Camille Moussette, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University.

'listening' Workshop
Richard Widerberg, Valand School of Fine Arts.

'Maurice Merleau-Ponty, concepts, basics' lecture
Helena Dahlberg, University of Gothenburg.

Guest Supervision: Mika Satomi and Ingo Randolf.


The Augmented Body is an experimental project course which set out to explore the human body's relation to technological (interaction) design, expanding the scope of experience design to include full body experiences. A couple of body-centered solutions are put together based on central phenomenological concepts like the experienced or lived body.

Organisation
The course consists of literature, lectures, workshops, and project work. The main part of the course is dedicated to a larger project performed in groups or pairs. Workshops, lectures, and literature serve as a backdrop for the projects, and aim to support central ideas in the course as well as functioning as a foundation for further research. The main focus of the course is on the participants own research in a field within the scope, and the completion of a project ready to be experienced and exhibited.

Participants
The course welcomes students from the Intelligent Systems Design and Interaction Design programmes at Chalmers, as well as the C:Art programme at Valand School of Fine Arts. Prerequisites are one of the following courses: Interaction Design Methodology (TDA496), Physical Computing (DAT125), Computer Mediated Installations (TIA061), or similar experience.

Reference literature
Kortum, P. HCI Beyond the GUI, Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory, and Other Nontraditional Interfaces, 2008.