Exploring Extended Mind-Wandering Through an Interactive Haptic Fidget Object

J.A. Eichenlaub; G. Huisman; H. Xue

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Exploring Extended Mind-Wandering Through an Interactive Haptic Fidget Object

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Mind-wandering (MW) and fidgeting are both present as pervasive phenomena in everyday life and can positively impact ideation. Importantly, within the MW experience, MW can manifest in bodily behaviors such as physical fidgeting. Here, we use an extended mind framework to consider fidgeting as a case of extended MW, where (part of) a MW episode is mediated by a fidget object. We position extended MW, fidgeting, and cognition as interrelated processes. We present the design of an interactive haptic fidget object that aims to support introspective self-awareness in MW and aid in idea synthesis. We discuss the results of an exploratory user evaluation in which the fidget object was used by designers during a personally relevant work session combining research, synthesis, and creativity. We close this paper by discussing the initial findings of our research, the implications for extended MW, and additional propositions for future research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23)
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	2657–2671
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9893-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596084
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23) - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 10 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023

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Conference	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	10/07/23 → 14/07/23

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

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mind-wandering
fdgeting
extended mind
haptics
creativity
tan- gible interaction

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Eichenlaub, JA, Huisman, G & Xue, H 2023, Exploring Extended Mind-Wandering Through an Interactive Haptic Fidget Object. in 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 2657–2671, 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23), Pittsburgh, United States, 10/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596084

Exploring Extended Mind-Wandering Through an Interactive Haptic Fidget Object. / Eichenlaub, J.A.; Huisman, G.; Xue, H.
2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 2657–2671.

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