Embodied Intuitive Interaction

Embodied Intuitive Interaction is a current PhD project that investigates how products such as toys, games and other interactive systems should be designed for intuitive interaction in children. I have been mentored by my wonderful supervisors, Assoc Prof Thea Blackler and Prof Vesna Popovic at every stage of this project.

Children were observed playing with Tangible, Intangible and Mixed Reality toys, some of the images of their play can be seen in the slideshow below. The outcome of this study is a design model for Embodied Intuitive Interaction design for children's products.Future study will focus on validating this model with older user groups and exploring other aspects of Embodied Intuitive interaction in children.

Publications:
 * Desai, Shital, Blackler, Alethea, & Popovic, Vesna (2016) Intuitive interaction in a mixed reality system. In  Design Research Society 2016, 27-30 June 2016, Brighton, United Kingdom.
 * Desai, Shital, Blackler, Alethea, & Popovic, Vesna (2015) Intuitive use of tangible toys. In Popovic, Vesna, Blackler, Alethea L., Luh, Ding-Bang, Nimkulrat, Nithikul, Kraal, Ben J., & Nagai, Yukari (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 6th IASDR (The International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress), IASDR (The International Association of Societies of Design Research), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 522-540.