Designing our Weird Social XR Future: Tactics to support hybrid ways of embodied knowing

This paper builds from the foundation of Dourish's embodied interaction and Höök's somaesthetic design writings to address the strange hybrid nature of embodiedness in the context of XR interaction. Working from the authors’ lived experience prototyping ‘weird social’ interactions, the paper uses VR as a case study toward illuminating some of the oddities of the embodied prototyping of XR experiences. Several tactics for design are proposed that others may find helpful, toward contributing to a rich panel discussion of embodied ways of knowing in the practice of shaping social XR experiences.