@inproceedings{10.1145/3689050.3706069,
author = {Saini, Aryan and Vs, Sabari and Montoya, Maria Fernanda and Overdevest, Nathalie and Patibanda, Rakesh and Elvitigala, Don Samitha and van den Hoven, Elise and Mueller, Florian ‘Floyd’},
title = {Inflated Exertion: Designing a Bodily Extension that Embodies Physical Activity},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400711978},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3706069},
doi = {10.1145/3689050.3706069},
abstract = {Interactive technologies such as smartwatches have been increasingly used to track physical activity. However, they often reduce physical activity to numerical outputs, missing the opportunity to enhance the user’s perception of, and hence, deepen their connection to, the physical activity. Prior research on bodily extensions has shown the potential for facilitating increased bodily awareness; however, their capacity to transform users’ everyday life experiences, such as potential physical activity, remains under-explored. To begin exploring this gap, we introduce “Inflated Exertion,” a pneumatic bodily extension designed to embody physical activity. The bodily extension inflates in response to the intensity and duration of a user’s exertion, offering a dynamic embodiment of the person’s physical activity to support people to engage with their bodies.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},
articleno = {76},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {Pneumatics, Physical activity, Embodied Interaction, Data Physicalization},
location = {
},
series = {TEI '25}
}

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