In my PhD-project, I study how to integrate somatic qualities of the human body within the design process when products become embodied and highly responsive to body-based and contextual-based signals (e.g. robotic arms, exoskeletons, electronic muscle stimulation).

I immerse myself into the context of disability artists, whose performative qualities navigate daily life activities within a highly interdependent technological context. I look for ways to integrate artistic and design research, drawing on the fields of Disability Arts, Performance Art, Integrated Dance, Musicology, Music Therapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy, Human-Computer Interaction, eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Textiles.

My work consists of creating performances and artefacts to materialise the digital-physical realm by making use of traditional as well as futuristic craftsmanship.

How can performative inquiry employ a bodily design perspective in human-computer integration, specifically in the application domain of health & well-being?

Research