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Research question (or approach): to understand the "structure" (bad word) of the experience of walking (the threads of experience, cf. McCarthy & Wright, 2004?) in order to explore walking mobilities and the performance of technology in this most mundane, everyday activity. By approaching walking as a particular (and easy to overlook) way of engagement in the world, the aim of this paper is to   Title suggestions: Taking the concept of mobility in bipedalism to mobility carried in hand.  The concept of mobility is "confused" and needs to be unravelled from the ground up - "we're all becoming mobile" - but what does that mean?  Reflective HCI - reflexivity  Not, take off your shoes and socks. You might be sitting in an office or in a comfortable chair at home. You now have bare feet. At first, it might feel a little uncomfortable or intimidating  The idea is to "translate" embodied walking through the lens of non-rep theory INTO design - and the reason why non-rep theory is appropriate for this is: rather than trying to take a distanced "interpretive" approach (e.g. comparing, observing, making sense of...) or studying the bio-mechanical components of walking, taking a postition from non-representational theory means attempting to take the phenomena at face value, not reducing it to some "latent meaning" or mechanical relationship. To retain the vitality of the practice...  What we can understand from basic "bi-pedality" ---