Physical interaction with technology: kinesiology as a reference discipline for information systems research

PHYSICAL INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGYKINESIOLOGY AS A REFERENCE DISCIPLINE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH

Élise Labonté-LeMoyne, Pierre-Majorique Léger,

Sylvain Sénécal , HEC Montréal

Radhika Santhanam , University of Oklahoma

Movement is the only way you have of affecting the world around you” WOLPERT 2011

PROPOSITIONS

NEW REFERENCE FIELD:

Kinesiology

NEW CONSTRUCT:

Physicality

Dimensions

• The physicality of direct interaction with technology

• The physicality of indirect interaction with technology

KINESIOLOGY AS A REFERENCE DISCIPLINEKINESIOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN MOVEMENT

SUBFIELDS OF INTEREST:

• Motor control

• Study of the effects of exercise on cognition

DIRECT AND INDIRECT PHYSICALITY

PHYSICALITY OF INDIRECT INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGY

Definition:

Physical positioning and movement of the user’s body during the interaction with technology including that which is necessary to support the device.

LITERATURE WALKING VS SITTINGIncreased creativity(Oppezzo and Schwartz 2014)

LYING DOWN VS STANDINGDiminished attention(Barra et al. 2015)

LYING DOWN VS SITTINGDiminished affective responses(Harmon-Jones and Peterson 2009)

ILLUSTRATIVE STUDYTHE TREADMILL DESK: SITTING COULD KILL YOU, BUT CAN YOU WALK AND WORK WELL?

Labonté-LeMoyne, É., Santhanam, R., Léger, P.-M., Courtemanche, F., Fredette, M., & Sénécal, S. (2015). The delayed effect of treadmill desk usage on recall and attention. Computers in Human Behavior, 46, 1–5.

Seated condition

Walking condition

Treamillhabituation

Reading taskwhile walking

Reading taskwhile seated

Adjustmentof equipment

5 min. 40 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.EEG

Recall taskPost-

experimentalsurvey

RESULTS WALKING GROUP:

• Increased task performance (recall task) (p=0.05)

• Increased self-perceived on-task attention (p<0.01)

• Improved EEG indexes of attention and memory (p<0.01)

INDIRECT PHYSICALITY HAD AN IMPACT ON HCI

Labonté-LeMoyne, É., Santhanam, R., Léger, P.-M., Courtemanche, F., Fredette, M., & Sénécal, S. (2015). The delayed effect of treadmill desk usage on recall and attention. Computers in Human Behavior, 46, 1–5.

PHYSICALITY OF INDIRECT INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGY

OPERATIONALIZATION:

• Stability (postural sway)

• Muscular recruitment (pressure sensors and calculation of force vectors)

PHYSICALITY OF DIRECT INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGY

Definition:

Quantity and type of movement required from the user to interact with the technology

LITTERATURE • feeling more confident

about one’s choice (Peck and Childers 2003)

• increased feelings of ownership(Brasel and Gips 2014)

• increased browsing on website(Brasel and Gips 2015)

TOUCH =

ILLUSTRATIVE STUDYMOUSE VS TOUCH SCREEN AS INPUT DEVICE: DOES IT INFLUENCE MEMORY RETRIEVAL?

• Significant interaction between the condition (touch vs mouse) and the Need for touch when it came to logo recognition

PHYSICALITY OF DIRECT INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGY HAD AN IMPACT ON HCI

Senecal, S., Léger, P.-M., Fredette, M., Courtemanche, F., Cameron, A.-F., Mirhoseini, S., Paquet, A., and Riedl, R. 2013. “Mouse vs . Touch Screen as Input Device : Does it Influence Memory Retrieval ?,” Thirty Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1–10.

PHYSICALITY OF DIRECT INTERACTION WITH TECHNOLOGY

OPERATIONALIZATION

Coding system

NEUROGES coding system (Lausberg and Sloetjes, 2015)

POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION

Goodhue, D. L. (1995). Understanding User Evaluations of Information Systems. Management Science, 41(12), 1827–1844.

Physicality



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