Moving Embodied Design Education Online.: Experiences from a Course in Embodied Interaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic

BSTRACTDuring the rapid and forced move to online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, university courses that never would have been considered suitable for online teaching under normal circumstances, were moved online. While challenging, this also opened opportunities for developing innovative strategies for teaching and learning. We report on the experiences of moving online a course in embodied interaction, which due to its focus on situated and embodied design faced extensive challenges in moving online. We highlight in particular the way in which the course brought forward innovative methods for bodystorming and user-assisted trialling. This paper has been written jointly by students and teachers from the course.