Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

6 results found in Embodied Interaction.

Body Sheet (Body Map, Body Mapping)
A body sheet is an outline drawing of the human body (typically front, back, and side views) used as a canvas onto which participants map bodily sensations, emotions, or symptoms. Originating in art t…
Embodied Experience (Embodied Interaction, Embodiment (UX))
The dimension of user experience that arises from the body's sensory and kinaesthetic encounter with a system or environment — motion, vibration, balance, proprioception, ambient sound, and felt pace …
Embodied Exploration
An approach to virtual environment interaction in which the user builds understanding of a space by physically walking, turning, reaching, and sweeping rather than by teleporting or using controller-b…
Embodied Sketching
Embodied sketching is a participatory design method in which participants and designers physically act out interaction ideas with their bodies, props, and the surrounding space rather than only sketch…
Interactive Dance (Interactive Dance Performance, Digital Dance)
A performance genre in which dancers' movements, physiology, or prop interactions are captured in real time (via motion capture, biosensors, or sensor-equipped objects) and used to drive digital visua…
Somaesthetics
Somaesthetics is a philosophical discipline, developed by Richard Shusterman, that treats the living, sentient, purposive body (the soma) as both a locus of aesthetic appreciation and a medium of crea…