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PAPERS: Designing Preventive Health Technologies and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Ayşe Özge Ağça, Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Session Chair: Teresa Almeida, Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal | |
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Questioning one’s body: overtrusting in body-sensing technology 1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: University of Bologna, Italy; 3: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Body sensors render human bodies as digital data, promising better self-knowledge. Yet, as people trust and learn to attune to these representations, system breakdowns expose tensions between embodied knowing and digital authority. Through Research through Design and Critical Design, this paper investigates how trust, control, and self-perception are negotiated in bodily interaction with data. Breathe Kritisk is a critical artefact that externalises breathing via an inflatable system linked to the user's solar plexus. Designed for estrangement, it resists attunement through a sensitive sensor and deceptive outputs — sometimes following the user’s breaths, other times acting on its own. We discuss insights from interviews and observations of interacting visitors at design festivals. Some visitors were convinced that they had complete control over the machine, while others questioned if they breathed properly. We interpret these reactions as a tendency to overtrust in the digital body representation, and discuss its implications. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1787
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