Interaction Design World Lecture Series
Between Actuality and Imagination
by Bill Gaver
Goldsmiths, University of London
April 19th, Tuesday, Room: Delta 15:00- 16:00
Västerås, Sweden
For about the last decade, I have been working with the Interaction Research Studio to pursue practice-based research on digital technologies. Our work has several features that distinguish it from most other research in the field. First, we avoid making things that are clearly useful, or even things that indicate clearly the roles they should play in peoples' lives. Instead, they create situations that people can find meaningful in their own ways. Second, our approach is strongly design-led, forsaking the certainty that seems to come with science. Instead, we recognise that our own imagination plays a role in interpreting data we gather about people before designing, and while they live with the prototypes we build. In this talk, I discuss the motivation behind our approach and present several examples of recent designs to illustrate it.
Bill Gaver is Professor of Design and leads the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths, University of London. With his group, he has developed approaches to design ranging from Cultural Probes to the use of documentary film to help assess peoples' experience with designs, pursued conceptual work on topics such as ambiguity and interpretation, and produced highly-finished prototypes that have been deployed for long-term field trials and exhibited in major international exhibitions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. Current projects concern designing computational devices for older people, batch production of research prototypes for large-scale field trials, and co-designing communities and devices to explore energy use.
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