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Wisp: Drones as Companions for  \nBreathing. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 1-16.  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740)  \nN. B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper.  \nresearch.chalmers.se offers the possibility of retrieving research publications produced at Chalmers University of Technology. It covers all kind of research output: articles, dissertations, conference papers, reports etc. since 2004. research.chalmers.se is administrated and maintained by Chalmers Library  \n(article starts on next page)  \nWisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing  \nMafalda Gamboa  \nInteraction Design Chalmers University of Technology Sweden [mafalda.gamboa@chalmers.se](mafalda.gamboa@chalmers.se)  \nSjoerd Hendriks  \nInteraction Design Chalmers University of Technology Sweden [henricus@chalmers.se](henricus@chalmers.se)  \nMehmet Aydın Baytaş  \nWeatherlight Sweden [baytas@weatherlight.com](baytas@weatherlight.com)  \nSara Ljungblad  \nInteraction Design Chalmers University of Technology Sweden [sara.ljungblad@chalmers.se](sara.ljungblad@chalmers.se)  \nFigure 1: Wisp works by replicating the breathing motion of its user, introducing breathing exercises, and exhibiting behaviour when the exercises are complete.  \nABSTRACT  \nThe spectrum of applications for social drones is broadening as they become an increasingly accessible technology. In order to expand on the immensely rich but poorly researched feld of Human-Drone Interaction (HDI), we present a minimal, explorative, and antisolutionist design. We describe the frst steps of a Research through Design (RtD) project focused on the concept-driven exploration of an unlikely pairing: drones and breathing. We present Wisp, a micro-drone probe controlled by a user’s breath. Informed by experts on breathing, drawing inspiration from soma design, Wisp is described as platform for the development of defamiliarising views towards intimate somatic interactions between humans and drones. In this paper we describe the initial studies in a RtD development process, including expert interviews, prototyping, and informal evaluations. We contribute to the feld of HDI with a design composite framework combining soma design and slow technology for exploratory somatic slow interactions between humans and drones.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.  \nTEI ’23, February 26-March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s) .  \nACM ISBN 978-1-4503-9977-7/23/02 .  \n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740](https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740)  \nCCS CONCEPTS  \n• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; Interaction design.  \nKEYWORDS  \nresearch through design, human-drone interaction, breathing, soma design, slow design, concept-driven design  \nACM Reference Format:  \nMafalda Gamboa, Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, Sjoerd Hendriks, and Sara Ljungblad. 2023. Wisp: Drones as Companions for Breathing. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26-March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740](https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572740)  \n1 INTRODUCTION  \nDrones (also referred to with other denominations such as UAVs, quadcopters, fying robot interfaces) are gaining interest in society as they become more widely available commercially [37]. It is likely that their presence in social environments will become increasingly prevalent, which justifes the research interest in understanding and designing drones as social agents [12] . 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