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This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of reflection and explication, it strengthens the discipline of design and makes it more open to interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the use of the ethnographic method in design, this book shows how design researchers can question the certainties of the everyday world, deconstruct reality into singular aesthetic and semantic phenomena, and reconfigure them into new contexts of signification. It shows that design ethnography is a process in which the epistemic and creative elements flow into one another in iterative loops. The goal of design ethnography is not to colonize the discipline of design with a positivist and objectivist scientific ethos, but rather to reinforce and reflect upon the explorative and searching methods that are inherent to it. This innovative book is of interest to design researchers and professionals, including graphic artists, ethnographers, visual anthropologists and others involved with creative arts/media. .

Ethnography. --- Design. --- Application software. --- Design, general. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Design, general --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities --- Design --- Computer and Information Systems Applications --- Blind Spot --- Design Ethnography --- Design Research --- Epistemology --- Ethnographic Interview --- Ethnographic Observation --- Intervention --- Participative Action Research --- Visual Ethnography --- Open Access --- Social & cultural anthropology --- Fine arts: art forms --- Computer applications in the arts & humanities --- Research.

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This edition revises the original core chapters and adds 15 contributions from artists who shed new light on the progress made in the early decades of the 21st Century. Explorations in Art and Technology is about the creative process in action, seen through the eyes of practitioners and researchers. It brings together artists, technologists and researchers who have written about emerging correspondences between virtual and physical worlds, between human and machine processes, between abstract concepts and their physical realizations, between music and visualization and between film and painting. It is a story of new visions and new forms. First published in 2002, this revised edition updates much of the original material and adds contributions from fifteen artists who shed new light on the progress that has been made in the early decades of the 21st Century. The book describes how artists have conceived and made novel digital works from a historical perspective and how inter-disciplinary research has had a profound effect on the take up of digital technology in the wider community. It shows that a practice-based action research approach to case studies of artist residencies enabled art and technology practitioners to take a significant role in the research and explores the nature of collaboration in this context. What emerges is a compelling story of inspirational creative work in a field that is transforming traditional norms in both art and technology. .

Human sciences (algemeen) --- Computer science --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- computers --- informatica --- sociale wetenschappen --- informatiesystemen --- computerkunde --- Computer science. --- Information systems. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Informatics --- Science --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction

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This book combines work from curators, digital artists, human computer interaction researchers and computer scientists to examine the mutual benefits and challenges posed when working together to support digital art works in their many forms. In Curating the Digital we explore how we can work together to make space for art and interaction. We look at the various challenges such as the dynamic nature of our media, the problems posed in preserving digital art works and the thorny problems of how we assess and measure audience’s reactions to interactive digital work. Curating the Digital is an outcome of a multi-disciplinary workshop that took place at SICHI2014 in Toronto. The participants from the workshop reflected on the theme of Curating the Digital via a series of presentations and rapid prototyping exercises to develop a catalogue for the future digital art gallery. The results produce a variety of insights both around the theory and philosophy of curating digital works, and also around the practical and technical possibilities and challenges. We present these complimentary chapters so that other researchers and practitioners in related fields will find motivation and imagination for their own work.

Computer science. --- Arts. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Art and computers. --- Computers and art --- Computers --- Information systems. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Informatics --- Science --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Arts, Primitive

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This book offers a compendium of best practices in game dynamics. It covers a wide range of dynamic game elements ranging from player behavior over artificial intelligence to procedural content generation. Such dynamics make virtual worlds more lively and realistic and they also create the potential for moments of amazement and surprise. In many cases, game dynamics are driven by a combination of random seeds, player records and procedural algorithms. Games can even incorporate the player’s real-world behavior to create dynamic responses. The best practices illustrate how dynamic elements improve the user experience and increase the replay value. The book draws upon interdisciplinary approaches; researchers and practitioners from Game Studies, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology and other disciplines will find this book to be an exceptional resource of both creative inspiration and hands-on process knowledge.

Computer science. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Computational intelligence. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Video games --- Electronic games --- Design. --- Programming. --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Informatics --- Science --- Electronic toys --- Games --- Engineering. --- Information systems. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology

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This book presents the user-facing aspects of digital media, from the web and computer games, to mobile technologies and social media, and demonstrates how these are continuously growing and developing. The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored, accessed and distributed. Rae Earnshaw's book explores the principal factors driving this and the ways in which social and cultural contexts are affected by media content. This is Professor Earnshaw's fourth book in a series that focuses on digital media and creativity, and through the use of Case Studies; the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of digital media are examined. Readers are informed about how the user as content creator, publisher and broadcaster is changing the traditional roles of news media, publishers and entertainment corporations. Topics such as the evolution of digital imaging and the phenomenon of social media are discussed in relation to this. Professor Earnshaw also demonstrates how changes in technology produce shifts in the ways that consumers utilize it, in an increasing variety of application domains such as e-books, digital cameras, Facebook and Twitter. State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications will be invaluable for readers that want a comprehensive look at how emerging digital media technologies are being used, and how they are transforming how we create, consume, exchange and manipulate media content. .

Computer science. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Application software. --- Multimedia systems. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Media Design. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Information systems. --- Informatics --- Science --- Multimedia systems . --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software