In Light of the growing trend of home insulation for energy sustainability, this question posed the question: What might we lose by reducing air to a material substance quantified, controlled, and enclosed into regulated bubbles? Following this initial question, the goal of the project eventually evolved to be: Use speculative design to inspire designers to shift from a utilitarian perspective of air as a scientific object to a relational perspective of air as a more-than-human entity.
Desk research and expert interviews created a foundation of knowledge on cultural understandings of air, experiential awareness of air and scientific understandings of air. Posthumanist literature, most notably works by Donna Haraway provided theoretical grounding; and the book Speculative Everything by Dunne and Raby informed the methodological approach.
Ideas from two generative group sessions were used to write eight speculative future scenarios. Of these, one was selected to be developed further. Starting with another generative group session, the speculative future Airflow City was further detailed. This worldbuilding delved into the culture, aesthetics and materiality of the city, developing characters and diegetic stories. More-than-human Agonistic Pluralism emerged as a key subtheme.
The Airologue is an artifact from airflow city that was developed as a concept to be prototyped and evaluated. It is an object used to enable a dialogue between a person’s breath and the surrounding air with the purpose of finding attunement.
The objective of the evaluation was to see if an interaction with the Airologue prototype could help to achieve the perspective shift stated in the project goal. There were a total of 9 participants not including 2 participants from the pilot evaluation. Four were designers, four were non-designers and one was one of the experts interviewed earlier in the project. The evaluation consisted of a survey before and after the interaction, a reflection and an interview.
The evaluation results indicated that the current prototype did not sufficiently help to meet the project goal, the main issue being that what was supposed to feel like a dialogue was still too much a monologue. This is an issue that could be resolved if another iteration of the prototype were to be made, a number of suggested improvements have been documented.
Overall the project has managed to explore our relationship with air through a number of posthumanist themes as well as connecting these themes to concept from political philosophy. The main value of this report is not so much in the final concept as it is in the breadth of the theoretical inquiry explored throughout a carrier bag of different stories.

The process of physical rehabilitation in most cases consists of visits to a physical therapist and exercises the patient is expected to perform at home. To increase or maintain strength or flexibility these exercises need to be performed regularly. Practice teaches us that not all patients succeed here. In this project, we look into what is keeping them from succeeding and how we can support this process.

In literature, four categories of barriers are described, from which the psychological barriers are most interesting to investigate further within this project. Motivation plays a big part within this category.

The Fogg model gives structure to the different components of motivation and different factors influencing the execution of preferred behavior. It shows us triggers will fail if motivation is low or the task takes too much effort to complete.

In a lot of the cases, the intention to complete the exercises is present with the client, but the behavior does not reflect this intention. The intention-behavior gap can be bridged the same way the fogg model suggests triggers to be efficient, by motivating the user or making the task take less effort.

By providing support during the exercise - providing both motivation and decreasing effort - and giving the patient the opportunity to track their progress after doing the exercises for a longer amount of time we can increase the exercise adherence.

To provide support, we need to gather data on the movements that are made during the exercise. We developed a textile stitched strain sensor that tracks the angle of a joint. The sensor has conductive thread stitched in a tight zigzag pattern onto Kinesio tape. Since the tape is adhered to the skin, the sensor experiences minimal hysteresis.

Using the data gathered by the stitched strain sensor, we tested giving back different kinds of feedback using two different actuators. We found that giving the test subjects more precise data on their movement made them more accurate, but at the same time, made them experience their movement as less accurate. This on the one hand, gave them more motivation to improve, but also made them less confident in performing the exercise.

The project proves that using the real time data gathered by the stitched strain sensor can add to better executing of on exercise and has potential to with that data also contribute to long term exercise-adherence.

Many people experience worry once in a while. Chronic worry can have a severe impact on people's daily life. Many things, like health conditions, social relationships, sleep quality, and work performance, are all influenced by worrying [Joseph 2017]. So, this is something we would like to address. This assignment aims to explore embodied interactions to help people reduce worries and improve their well-being. To understand what people are worried about, how they start worrying, and what people do when worrying, I designed a culture probe, with wristband, stickers, and reports. The culture probe aims to capture the moment when the users are worrying. There were 16 participants in this research, providing 90 worry reports[Appendix-2]. From the analysis of culture probe, I narrowed the scope into the design goals: Monitor people's worry level, relieve people's negative feelings, remind people who are stuck in the negative feelings and distract people when they perceive low controllability. After that, I did competitive research about mental health Apps and therapeutic robots on the market. This research is to analyze the interactions they provide, why they work/do not work. Combining with literature reviews, I came up with the interaction vision describing how the interaction should be. The most essential visions are Inviting, subtle& natural, socially autonomous, and meaningful. Then, in the ideation phase, I did two brainstorming sessions to explore interactions to relieve people's negative feelings, how to detect their worrying feelings and how to make the interaction intuitively relate to the worries. There were also two evaluation sessions in the ideation phase, which helped me develop the ideas into three concepts. In the conceptualization phase, I developed three concepts further and arranged a peer evaluation session to determine the final concept, the zen stone concept. Then I did a low-fi prototype test to find out it the idea fits the design goal & interaction vision. The result was very promising; the interaction helped the user to relieve their negative feelings. So I decided to develop the concept further with an App providing guidance. Then I arranged the final usability test and iterated the concept with some details. The final design's name is Zen stone. It can recognize the user's emotions with emotion recognition by speech software and remind the user when they are worrying, though shining and vibrating. The zen stone will mimic the user's heart rate through a sensor, helping the user be aware of their mental state. It will also provide meditation guidance to help to user calm down and focus on the moment.