DESIGNING FOR NATURALLY ENGAGING EXPERIENCES

TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009

DESIGNING FOR NATURALLY ENGAGING EXPERIENCES

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS

D. Browning, M. Bødker , N. Bidwell , M. van Erp, Truna aka J. Turner

Experience-centred design and designing for affective computing often includes video or photographic data collected in the field. Using recorded material as 'hard data' is difficult, so there is a need to utilise it as a 'soft and flexible medium of representation'. During the course of re-presenting and re-interpreting the data designers come to a reflexive understanding of the design space they create, one shaped by their own cultural perspectives and perhaps those of their intended audience. Interaction with data, and between designers themselves, adds to the original material and inspires design.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • The collection of data about people's experience of natural places
  • The ways in which recorded data products are sites of continued interaction
  • Creating artefacts that afford designers' interpretation and shape the design space
  • The challenges of informing design with insights from distant places
  • Discussion of how new media might depict sensory data of place

The workshop will begin with presentations of example data and a discussion structured around participants' position papers. Participants will then interact with the media material and produce initial design responses. These will be used to evolve new artefacts and prototypes. Finally there will be an opportunity to reflect on the role of the interaction with the media in getting closer to what it feels like to shape the design space and generate ideas for new media products to use in participants' own design endeavours.
Participants are asked to submit a position paper (3-4 pages in Springer Lecture Notes format). Position papers should either (i) situate the participants’ interests and background among the themes of the workshop, or (ii) report on appropriate preliminary research findings, drawing on their use of video and/or photographs and/or audio with media examples where possible. Selection criteria for inclusion in the workshop will be influenced by a desire to cover a wide range of themes within the topics outlined above. At least one author for each paper must register at both the workshop and conference.

KEY DATES

Call for papers: 1st May 2009
June 12 Submission deadline (by email to David Browning)
June 30 Notification of acceptance
July 31 Camera-ready submission