ReRide: A Bike Area Network for Embodied Self-monitoring during Motorbike Commute

Motorbike commuting is the new frontier for exploring digital technology where designing for embodied interaction takes on a more central role. In this paper, building on previous work on embodied self-monitoring, we present our ongoing work of designing a modular platform with a particular focus on real-time estimation and presentation of posture data while riding. In particular, we present "Bike Area Network' (BANk) as a system architecture to help guide the design of such a platform. We share our ongoing work as an invitation for the community of researchers and practitioners of designing for embodied interaction to further explore this new frontier of research.

Keywords. Motorbike riding, embodied self-monitoring, bike area network, modular platform

Cite as. N Bagalkot, G Singh, V Rath, T Sokoler, A Shukla. 2019. ReRide: A Bike Area Network for Embodied Self-monitoring during Motorbike Commute. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 443-450. doi: 10.1145/3294109.3300986