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- Title of Exhibit Proposal:
Agents of Change: from Collection to Connection, Exhibit (Ref #201)
- Date:
- 26-10-2006 12:22:02
- Status:
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Accepted
- Rating:
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Details:
Exhibit Proposal
Agents of Change: from Collection to Connection
Motivation
This exhibit aims to demonstrate that there is a new role for craft practitioners and craft thinkers as humanisers of technology.
Problem
The use jewellery object has been the focus of research as a method of integrating computers into the environment and onto the body, so called ubiquitous or pervasive computing. The use and adaptation of existing forms of jewellery tends to ignore the rich potential within the jewellery object as a carrier of multilayered meaning: the aesthetics of the artefact and the emotional quality of the interaction are often secondary considerations to the efficacy of technology. The mode and purpose of wearing jewellery makes it an appropriate choice as a controlling device in physical computing (Wallace and Dearden 2005). However, user-testing (White and Steel, 2006) has demonstrated that a complex interplay of issues regarding aesthetics, wearability and familiarity affect the wearer/user?s perception of the jewellery object.
Approach
The exhibit will be an interactive experience allowing users to input gestural movement into a screen based application creating individual visual outputs using a piece of jewellery as the controlling device. The exhibit will be used as a method of collecting data to inform further research. A number of different jewellery objects will be presented to collect data regarding the aesthetics and wearability of the pieces. Additional data collection will capture wearer/user?s responses in terms of ease of use, emotional responses and the appropriateness of using jewellery as an input device. It is intended that this will inform the discussion as to the value of the craft process within a hybrid design methodology which draws on craft, design and visual art methods.
Keywords: Interaction, jewellery, multimedia, wearables, user centred design, craft
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