Next Seminar
Symposium on Big Data and Risk Assessors in Health and Social Care
28/06/2013 Friday 28 June, 09:30, Merchiston Campus
IIDI News
Michael Smyth is a keynote speaker at the Space.Beyond.Geometry Workshop at Edinburgh University
18/06/2013
Michael Smyth to chair the 2013 SICSA MMI Doctoral Consortium at University of Stirling
11/06/2013
Critical Design :: Is it just designers doing ethnography or does it offer something more for Interaction Design? Panel at Interact 2011, Lisbon
07/09/2011
More information about the Panel
This panel will explore whether Critical Design offers new insight as a method for articulating future interactions. Will its promise deliver or are Interaction Designers destined to experience the same feeling of disappointment that HCI practitioners felt after the novelty of Ethnography began to fade? Will the design fictions of Critical Design mature into design facts or will the demand to solve problems short circuit the method? Indeed, is problem solving per se an out-moded way of design thinking in the context of today’s multi-layered hybrid society?
This panel will explore whether Critical Design offers new insight as a method for articulating future interactions. Will its promise deliver or are Interaction Designers destined to experience the same feeling of disappointment that HCI practitioners felt after the novelty of Ethnography began to fade? Will the design fictions of Critical Design mature into design facts or will the demand to solve problems short circuit the method? Indeed, is problem solving per se an out-moded way of design thinking in the context of today’s multi-layered hybrid society?
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Expressive interaction describes the range of new forms of human-computer interaction that are made available through technologies based on speech, touch and gesture. The opportunities presented by these developments promise to be far-reaching, enabling new forms of interaction with information...
