As design practice shifts from designing material goods to shaping and facilitating social situations, there is a compelling need to develop a richer understanding of specific social relations as facilitated by design. This article explores bodied unisons—enkinaesthetic entrainments of self + other. We present these unison acts as identifiable patterns of behavior that are observable when people coordinate, patterns that foster a move from individual to superunit. Extending the metaphor of musical unison, this article provides perspective on the varied qualities of consensus, offering insight for those designing to coordinate behavior. The disciplines of service design, interaction design, and experience design all aim to coordinate behavior toward specific ends. In each discipline, there are two or more entities (the client and the service provider, for instance) searching for congruence, and the success or failure of the interaction can be assessed through this spectrum of unisons. This study explores the definition of unison as an enkinaesthetic embodied act, provides a framework for analysis, and concludes with implications for the design profession and some ethical considerations regarding designed unisons. The analytical framework encourages novel attention to shared experience, opening avenues for intervention in experiential design fields. As a metaphoric construct and as embodied performance, unison offers participants a sense of stability and cooperation with varying degrees of independence and agency.

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同调梯度：集体行动中的新兴超级单位

随着设计实践从设计物质产品转向塑造和促进社会情境，迫切需要对设计所促进的特定社会关系有更丰富的理解。本文探讨了身体的统一——自我+他人的动感牵引。我们将这些一致行为呈现为可识别的行为模式，当人们协调时可以观察到这些模式，这些模式促进了从个人到超单位的转变。本文扩展了音乐和谐的隐喻，提供了对共识的不同品质的看法，为那些设计协调行为的人提供了见解。服务设计、交互设计和体验设计的学科都旨在协调行为以实现特定的目标。在每个学科中，都有两个或多个实体（例如客户和服务提供商）在寻找一致性，并且可以通过这种一致性来评估交互的成功或失败。本研究探讨了统一作为一种动感体现行为的定义，提供了一个分析框架，并得出了对设计行业的影响以及有关设计统一的一些伦理考虑的结论。该分析框架鼓励对共享经验的新关注，为介入体验设计领域开辟了途径。作为一种隐喻结构和具体表现，和谐为参与者提供了一种具有不同程度的独立性和代理性的稳定与合作感。