Turmo Vidal, LaiaLi, YinchuStojanov, MartinJohansson, Karin B.Tylstedt, BeatriceEklund, Lina2024-06-202024-06-202023-02-28Laia Turmo Vidal, Yinchu Li, Martin Stojanov, Karin B. Johansson, Beatrice Tylstedt, and Lina Eklund. 2023. Towards Advancing Body Maps as Research Tool in Interaction Design. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26-March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages.978-1-4503-9977-7https://hdl.handle.net/10016/44006Body maps are a popular tool in body-centric design, facilitating a sensitization and expression of felt sensations and emotions. Yet, they also bring forth assumptions about the body and our somatic experience. Based on an open and exploratory design ideation inquiry, we have started to explore how body maps could be advanced so as to cater to a plurality of bodies and aspects that shape somatic experiences. We present an annotated portfolio featuring six design themes (temporality, sociality, representativeness, granularity, context, focus). These themes help us examine implicit assumptions of current body maps, and offer possible alternatives for what future body maps could become. We contribute our themes, inspirational design ideas and practical design techniques to help craft novel body maps. Our contributions can serve as inspiration to others, towards advancing body maps as a research tool for body-centric interaction design.eng© 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.Body MapsBody-Centric DesignSoma DesignDocumentation MethodsDesign Research Methodsconference proceedingsInformáticaopen access114TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionCC/0000034112