Presentation at the ACM SIGCHI CHI 2008 conference by Höök, Ståhl, Sundström and Laaksolahti on "Interactional Empowerment" - how to design for affective interaction without infringing on people's privacy or autonomy.

1. Interactional Empowerment Kristina Höök Anna Ståhl Petra Sundström Jarmo Laaksolahti from Mobile Life @ Stockholm University & SICS

4. Examples!

5. eMoto

6. eMoto

7. eMoto

10. eMoto Creating meaning together Mona: “Green is my favorite color and my boyfriend knows that, so this is why it is green because he knows that I think that green is a lovely color, just as lovely as he is.” Friends: ”Mona is a green person”

11. eMoto: Meaning-making through body? Mona said: ” I leave out things I think are implicit due to the color… the advantage is that you don’t have to write as much, it is like a body language. Like when you meet someone you don’t say ’I’m sulky’ or something like that, because that shows, I don’t need to say that. And it’s the same here, but here it’s color.”

12. eMoto: Involvement through body Agnes’ partner: ” When she was happy she showed that with her whole body. Not only her arm was shaking but her whole body. Meanwhile a huge smile appeared on her lips.”

13. Affective Diary

14. Affective Diary

15. Affective Diary Meaning-making, reflection and change ” [pointing at the first slightly red character] And then I become like this, here I am kind of, I am kind of both happy and sad in some way and something like that. I like him and then it is so sad tht we see each other so little. And then I cannot really show it.”

16. Affective Diary Meaning-making – of all kinds! ” After that we talked and the discussions were very intense, a lot about, which shows here [points at the figures], lilac is spirituality, we talked a lot about clairvoyance, shamans, healing. Everybody shared their experiences, a very intense meeting.”

22. Example: eMoto – no labels!

26. eMoto example: Mona: ” Interesting is the guy you meet in the pub, you never call him, you send him an SMS because you’re not brave enough to call him. And then it’s like ‘Shall I send an emoto or an SMS?’ If you send an SMS the signal would be ‘Now I’m a coward and…’. I think emotos end up somewhere in between an SMS and actually calling him.”