The human body, with all its capacity, is well suited for the complexity of the physical world. Yet, our most pervasive communication devices limit our experience to pixels and clicks.

Possible Futures: In the future, the screen is no longer king and the computer is no longer visible. A wide range of devices and interfaces will emerge that utilize the body’s full-range of sensory capacities. These devices will utilize the sense of touch and gesture to replace icon-clicking. The human body will be commonly regarded as a practical interface for digital communication.
Marjorie L. Rand, gives a clear definition to what Somatic Tracking means in an article found in the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Vol. 5, 2002.1

“'Somatic' means 'of the body' (Greek soma) and attunement means to adjust or accustom something to become receptive or responsive to something else…Somatic attunement (also known as somatic tracking) means the therapist’s use of her own bodily experience. It is a state of being and a therapeutic tool. Sensations are felt as a direct experience of bodily states.

They are perceived through the sensory-motor division of the peripheral nervous system (Rothschild, 2000), which includes exteroceptive senses (the five senses), and interoceptive senses, such as proprioception and vestibular sensing.

Somatic makers (Damasio, 1994, p. 173) are defined as gut (visceral) feelings in the body of the therapist by which a particular response option is marked by a particular sensation. Somatic markers increase the accuracy of the decision making process by emotions and feelings which have connected, by learning, to predicted future outcomes.“