C-IoT Seminar on Inbodied-Centered Design for Human Awareness - Event

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​Title: Inbodied Interaction and a Return of the Monastery: Designing IoT to align with Effortless Human Performance, rather than Dis-ease, for a new Future of Work

Speaker: prof m.c. schraefel

Abstract: The stats are everywhere: we are, literally on average, under slept, and significantly under-moved with sedentary offices. We are also under nourished but over caloried, and our brains are under-challenged with over emphasis on specialisation, whether manual labour or knowledge work. In the built environment, light pollution, air pollution, and lack of regular engagement with green spaces also means that we are apart from the environments in which our biology evolved over hundred of millennia to thrive.

Put these factors of the current “normal” of work and workplace together, add in the stats on the UK being the third highest nation in the EU with over 41 hours a week of work and only increasing during all our work from home, and one may argue, the activity we do most when awake couldn’t be better designed to make us sick.

So - how might we re-align the design of the Future of Work - to work with us and support us, rather than seemingly against us? And What is the role of IoT in that facilitation?

In this short talk and discussion, I’ll present an overview of Inbodied Interaction as an approach and TUNING as a methodology for IoT designers to consider ways to design to support human wellbeing.

You’re welcome to take a look at the Inbodied Interaction Primer as a fast preview for the discussion. And it’s not too late to join our Inbodied Interaction Seminary started Nov 15 (videos available) and continue weekly though Dec 15)