La armadura de una investigadora: un compromiso material crítico con las experiencias somáticas

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Janne Mascha Beuthel

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A través de su trabajo, los investigadores y profesionales del diseño se relacionan continuamente con seres humanos, lo que puede traducirse en encuentros con histo­rias personales, preguntas desafiantes y ex­pectativas. El investigador puede verse ante la disyuntiva de seguir siendo “profesional”, lo que a menudo se asocia a ser “neutral”, o comprometerse con sus propias emo­ciones, vulnerabilidades e inseguridades. Este artículo presenta un proceso de diseño somático informado por las experiencias autobiográficas de la autora. El resultado es un artefacto vestible llamado La armadura de una investigadora. El artefacto encarna las ex­periencias somáticas que se experimentan al “hacer investigación” y “ser investigador” durante los estudios cualitativos con parti­cipantes. Pretende provocar reflexiones y apunta a pensar acerca del profesionalismo. Los materiales físicos se ensamblan en una forma que se puede vestir, lo que permite a otros investigadores relacionarse con ellos a través de sus propios cuerpos. Por último, se describen los temas que la armadura ha evocado en otros; estos esbozan los conoci­mientos que el artefacto aporta al campo de la Interacción Humano-Computador.

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Beuthel, J. M. (2022). La armadura de una investigadora: un compromiso material crítico con las experiencias somáticas. Diseña, (20), Article.3. https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.20.Article.3 (Original work published 31 de enero de 2022)
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Janne Mascha Beuthel, Universidad de Salzburgo

PBA en Diseño de Moda y Negocios, Business Academy SouthWest. Máster en diseño de productos infor­máticos, Universidad de Dinamarca del Sur. Becaria de investigación y estudiante de doctorado en el Centro de Interacción Persona-Com­putador de la Universidad de Salzburgo. Su investigación se enfoca en el diseño centrado en el cuerpo, las interacciones vestibles (wearable interactions), las experiencias sentidas, las exploraciones materiales y artesanales y los feminismos en la HCI. Algunas de sus publicaciones más recientes son: “Experiencing Distance: Wearable Engagements with Remote Relationships” (con P. Bentegeac, V. Fuchsberger, B. Maurer y M. Tscheligi; en Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI ‘21); “Grandparents and Grandchildren Meeting Online: The Role of Ma­terial Things in Remote Settings” (con V. Fuchsberger, P. Bentegeac, y M. Tscheligi; en Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems); y “Wearing the Invisible: Wearable Manifestations of Embodied Experiences” (en Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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