Somaesthetics

Somaesthetics is a philosophical discipline, developed by Richard Shusterman, that treats the living, sentient, purposive body (the soma) as both a locus of aesthetic appreciation and a medium of creative self-fashioning. It integrates analytical, pragmatic, and practical perspectives on bodily experience. In HCI and accessibility, somaesthetics is the philosophical grounding for soma design methods that foreground embodied sensation, bodily awareness, and first-person perceptual experience in the design of interactive systems.