“Weight of Scrolling” - Browsing Social Media In Bed With A Collaborative Interface for Horizontal Users

Browsing social media feeds in bed can reduce relationship quality, disrupt sleep, increase anxiety, and cause physical discomfort. To provoke creative discussion around these issues, this paper presents a demonstration of a refreshing alternative. “Weight of Scrolling” is an interactive installation that successfully reimagines social media scrolling through a tangible embodied media interface that fosters positive collaborative engagement. Participants are invited to lay down together and collectively, physically manipulate a large-scale cotton fabric scroll of simulated social media updates.