Somatic Drawing Tool: 3D Body Sheet as Material for Articulating Synaesthetic Experiences
Mamoru Watanabe, Oussama Metatla, Atau Tanaka · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper reports a three-year participatory co-design cycle with synaesthetes - people who involuntarily experience cross-sensory perceptions such as seeing colours when hearing music or feeling tactile sensations when reading letters. The authors argue that…
synaesthesia · sensory articulation · soma design · body sheet · VR drawing