Does Random Movements mean Random Results? Why Asynchrony in Experiments on Body Ownership does not Work as Intended

Effects of embodying virtual avatars are routinely validated experimentally by comparing synchronous and asynchronous movements between virtual and real bodies. This experimental paradigm, however, lacks justification, validation, and standardization. Asynchrony is implemented in numerous ways, such as through delayed, dislocated, or prerecorded movements, and these may impact embodiment and user experience distinctively. An online study ($N = 202$) revealed that variations of asynchrony cause disparate responses to embodiment and user experience, with prerecorded movements distorting embodiment the most. A think-aloud study ($N = 16$) revealed that asynchronous conditions lead to peculiar and oftentimes negative experiences. Furthermore, asynchronous conditions in some cases maintain, rather than break the body ownership illusion, as participants imitate the virtual body. Our results show that asynchrony in experiments on embodiment entails profound validity issues and should therefore be used with caution.Effects of embodying virtual avatars are routinely validated experimentally by comparing synchronous and asynchronous movements between virtual and real bodies. This experimental paradigm, however, lacks justification, validation, and standardization. Asynchrony is implemented in numerous ways, such as through delayed, dislocated, or prerecorded movements, and these may impact embodiment and user experience distinctively. An online study (N = 202) revealed that variations of asynchrony cause disparate responses to embodiment and user experience, with prerecorded movements distorting embodiment the most. A think-aloud study (N = 16) revealed that asynchronous conditions lead to peculiar and oftentimes negative experiences. Furthermore, asynchronous conditions in some cases maintain, rather than break the body ownership illusion, as participants imitate the virtual body. Our results show that asynchrony in experiments on embodiment entails profound validity issues and should therefore be used with caution

Enabling Embodied Music-Making for Non-Musicians

We present a Research through Design exploration of the potential for using tangible and embodied interactions to enable active music experiences - musicking - for non-musicians. We present the Tubularium prototype, which aims to facilitate music-making to non-musicians by not requiring any initial skill while still eliciting agency and overall, providing a meaningful experience. We present the design of the prototype and the features implemented and reflect on insights from a public event in which the prototype was trialed

Why AI Monitoring Faces Resistance and What Healthcare Organizations Can Do About It: An Emotion-Based Perspective

Continuous monitoring of patients' health facilitated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enhanced the quality of health care, that is, the ability to access effective care. However, AI monitoring often encounters resistance in adoption by decision makers. Healthcare organizations frequently assume that the resistance stems from patients’ rational evaluation of the technology's costs and benefits. Recent research challenges this assumption and suggests that the resistance to AI monitoring is influenced by the emotional experiences of patients and their surrogate decision makers. We develop a framework from an emotional perspective, provide important implications for healthcare organizations, and offer recommendations to help reduce resistance to AI monitoring

Imagining a Soft and Relational Smart Home

This paper presents three scenario-based speculations accompanied by material explorations of soft IoT for smart homes based on humidity data. Cycle Lines tracks and displays weekly patterns of humidity levels shown as colored lines in a woven display, Relationscape, a real-time tracker and knitted display of humidity showing the relation between two different households, and Eco-collective, embroidery IoT that changes color depending on the humidity levels of different objects in the household. Based on first-person engagements with humidity sensors placed in the authors’ homes, they imagine new types of soft IoT devices that sense and display relations to humidity data, suggesting a role for mundane,craft-based IoT for smart homes. They express the relational nature of humidity and how it is tied to well-being in the home, among household members and other human and more-than-human inhabitants, as well as the environmental conditions inside and outside of the home. The soft, craft-based approach to imagining futures of IoT for smart homes has feminist commitments and invites for further problematizing domestic labor practices and craft activism in the domestic context

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Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing: Anticipating Proof?

This chapter interrogates the question of what defines predictive policing. Our point of departure is notions in Science and Technology Studies that attend to how boundary objects such as predictive policing are produced through the interrelation of politics, sociotechnical imaginaries, and contestations. Through ethnographic inquiry on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform of the Danish police, we follow the evolution and demarcations in the (re)-classifications of POL-INTEL from predictive to non-predictive. In so doing, we situate POL-INTEL in the wider international context regarding the development of predictive policing and investigate the boundary work between predictive policing and similar concepts such as Intelligence-Led Policing. Concisely, we argue that the development of the notion of predictive policing is fundamentally unstable and tied to political and economic interests