Performing research : four contributions to HCI
This paper identifies a body of HCI research wherein the researchers take part in digitally mediated creative experiences alongside participants. We present our definition and rationale for ‘self-situated performance research’ based on theories in both the HCI and performance literatures. We then an...
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| author | Taylor, Robyn Spence, Jocelyn Walker, Brendan Nissen, Bettina Wright, Peter |
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| description | This paper identifies a body of HCI research wherein the researchers take part in digitally mediated creative experiences alongside participants. We present our definition and rationale for ‘self-situated performance research’ based on theories in both the HCI and performance literatures. We then analyse four case studies of this type of work, ranging from overtly ‘performative’ staged events to locative audio and public making. We argue that by interrogating experience from within the context of self-situated performance, the ‘performer/researcher’ extends traditional practices in HCI in the following four ways: developing an intimate relationship between researchers and participants, providing new means of making sense of interactions, shaping participants’ relationship to the research, and enabling researchers to refine their work as it is being conducted. |
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| spelling | nottingham-447412020-05-04T18:43:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44741/ Performing research : four contributions to HCI Taylor, Robyn Spence, Jocelyn Walker, Brendan Nissen, Bettina Wright, Peter This paper identifies a body of HCI research wherein the researchers take part in digitally mediated creative experiences alongside participants. We present our definition and rationale for ‘self-situated performance research’ based on theories in both the HCI and performance literatures. We then analyse four case studies of this type of work, ranging from overtly ‘performative’ staged events to locative audio and public making. We argue that by interrogating experience from within the context of self-situated performance, the ‘performer/researcher’ extends traditional practices in HCI in the following four ways: developing an intimate relationship between researchers and participants, providing new means of making sense of interactions, shaping participants’ relationship to the research, and enabling researchers to refine their work as it is being conducted. 2017-05-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Taylor, Robyn, Spence, Jocelyn, Walker, Brendan, Nissen, Bettina and Wright, Peter (2017) Performing research : four contributions to HCI. In: CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 6-11 May 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Performance; performing research; self-situated research; public making; design from within; practice; sense-making http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025751&CFID=794972891&CFTOKEN=26124136 10.1145/3025453.3025751 10.1145/3025453.3025751 10.1145/3025453.3025751 |
| spellingShingle | Performance; performing research; self-situated research; public making; design from within; practice; sense-making Taylor, Robyn Spence, Jocelyn Walker, Brendan Nissen, Bettina Wright, Peter Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title | Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title_full | Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title_fullStr | Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title_short | Performing research : four contributions to HCI |
| title_sort | performing research : four contributions to hci |
| topic | Performance; performing research; self-situated research; public making; design from within; practice; sense-making |
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