The need for interpersonal connectedness and the possibility of applying
collaborative breathing in technological artifacts for mediating connectedness
has led to the idea of devising an experience that applies internal,
physiological synchronization aided by technology to create connectedness. The
aim of this research is to explore how to use co-design to help understand jam
session performers’ insights on their expected sensory experiences related to
interpersonal connectedness and how to devise technological artifacts to meet
their needs to establish internal connectedness with each other. In this research-led design project, an iteration model of a
series of speculative co-design workshops, prototyping and testing was
proposed and applied based on the concept of co-design. The design outcome—CBreath—presents a way of using collaborative breathing to create connectedness
between the performers, externalizing their synchronized breathing by
multi-sensory experiences via light, wind, and dynamic objects and making such effects
parts of the jam session. This research demonstrates the feasibility of
incorporating the iterative speculative co-design model into
experience-oriented design of technology to ethically design for interpersonal
connectedness. Such a design research approach can be further improved and applied in future
technological artifact development to prioritize people’s expected experiences
of establishing interpersonal connectedness in different contexts.
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