Embodied Experience

The dimension of user experience that arises from the body's sensory and kinaesthetic encounter with a system or environment — motion, vibration, balance, proprioception, ambient sound, and felt pace — rather than from explicit information channels. In autonomous transport, embodied cues become primary interpretive resources when visible operators are absent: passengers read docking from the feel of the vessel, and unexplained pauses feel urgent and ambiguous. Designing for embodied experience is especially important for users whose primary channel for system state is non-visual.