Elsa Kosmack Vaara

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Sweden °-1973
research interests: time, artistic research, culinary arts, transdiciplinarity, prototyping, sustainability, participatory culture, participatory design
affiliation: RISE
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Elsa Kosmack Vaara is an artistic user experience and interaction design researcher (PhD from the Royal Academy of Technology in Stockholm), former musician and engaged in artistic participatory processes. Elsa was a researcher in Mobile Life Vinnova excellence centre and worked in Affective Health, a project investigating people's aesthetic experiences in relation to stress, biosensor technology and empowerment. Her research developed in to a PhD that focused on ways that the aesthetic of temporal form can be explored and prototyped through artistic processes. Elsa works in a transdisciplinary approach and develops co-creation methods. She is involved in research projects investigating inclusion, diversity and AI, how to improve the work environment in process industry.

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  • Exploring and Prototyping the Aesthetics of Felt Time (2020) author(s): Elsa Kosmack Vaara, Cheryl Akner Koler published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    The intention of this research is to investigate how interaction designers may explore felt time through the culinary practice of sourdough baking. In this exposition we share how the physical experience and manipulation/shaping of time in sourdough baking provides an experience of fulfillment and satisfaction. We show our insights on how interaction designers, and possibly many other communities of practice and discourse, may learn from this. The goal is to inspire the audience to engage in a broad and critical discourse around felt time and to emphasize the value of prototyping a felt time repertoire in interaction design. The research exploration is built on the collaboration between an interaction designer/researcher, a culinary connoisseur baker and a sculptor/design researcher and teacher.
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