Bodystorming

A participatory design method where participants physically act out scenarios, interactions, or use cases using their bodies rather than paper prototypes or verbal descriptions. In accessibility research, bodystorming allows designers and users with disabilities to collaboratively explore movement-based interactions, spatial relationships, and sensory feedback possibilities through embodied experience rather than abstract discussion. This approach is particularly valuable for designing multi-sensory systems where the felt quality of interactions is difficult to capture through traditional prototyping.