Embodied interaction has had a strong influence on the IxD and HCI-fields ever since the beginning of this century. Paul Dourish book broke the ground for discussing embodiment in particular, but before then, the participatory design movement took inspirations from a phenomenologically grounded perspective. Daniel Fällman wrote his PhD-thesis on the topic and has been much cited for his work.
In this course, we will mainly study how phenomenological concepts such as embodiment or intersubjectivity has been interpreted and turned into design within IxD and HCI. We will only occasionally go back and read the philosophical basis – Merlaeu-Ponty, Heidegger and so on.