Crafting Bodies and Auras:  Speculative Designs for Transhuman Communication

Genc Caglar; Velvet Spors; Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk; Mattia Thibault; Leland Masek; Juho Hamari

doi:10.1145/3616961.3617810

Crafting Bodies and Auras: Speculative Designs for Transhuman Communication

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Abstract

Bodies exhibit communicative qualities, including gestures, facial expressions, body odors, and changes in proximity, like tattoos, clothing, and accessories. However, a transformative shift in human bodies looms ahead, propelled by transhumanism’s proposition of integrating machines with humans to enhance physical, sensorial, cognitive, and emotional capacities. This poster explores communication opportunities and potential consequences around transhuman technologies for the temporal alterations on the body through speculative designs. These speculations are formed based on four cospeculation workshops with the attendance of participants (N=35) with varying experiences in fiction creation and technology development. By envisioning flexible bodies, transforming into objects, detachable body parts, chameleon skin, and multimodal auras, our work contributes design speculations to spark discussions on the transformative impact of transhuman technologies on communication, prompting innovative investigations into this uncharted territory.

Original language	English
Pages	354-358
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3616961.3617810
Publication status	Published - Oct 2023
Publication type	Not Eligible
Event	International Academic Mindtrek Conference - Tampere, Finland Duration: 3 Oct 2023 → 6 Oct 2023

Conference

Conference	International Academic Mindtrek Conference
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	3/10/23 → 6/10/23

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Academy of Finland Flagship "Forest-Human-Machine Interplay -Building Resilience, Redefining Value Networks and Enabling Meaningful Experiences" (UNITE, 337653

Funders	Funder number
Academy of Finland	337653

Keywords

Transhumanism
Human augmentation
human-technology integration
Wearables
Speculative Design
Communication

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Envisioning Transhuman Communication Research: Speculative Human Augmentation Technologies and Fictional Abstracts
Genc, C., Spors, V., Buruk, O. O., Thibault, M., Masek, L. & Hamari, J., 11 Feb 2024, TEI 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 42. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).
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Transhuman Communication: Human Augmentation Technologies through Co-Speculation Workshops
Genç, Ç., Spors, V., Buruk, O., Thibault, M., Masek, L. & Hamari, J., 8 Nov 2024, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8, CSCW2, p. 1-26
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Crafting Bodies and Auras: Speculative Designs for Transhuman Communication

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Envisioning Transhuman Communication Research: Speculative Human Augmentation Technologies and Fictional Abstracts

Transhuman Communication: Human Augmentation Technologies through Co-Speculation Workshops

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