Performing research: four contributions to HCI

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Taylor, R., Spence, J., Walker, B., Nissen, B. and Wright, P. 2017. Performing research: four contributions to HCI. CHI '17. Denver, USA 06 - 11 May 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). pp. 4825-4837 https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025751
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TitlePerforming research: four contributions to HCI
AuthorsTaylor, R., Spence, J., Walker, B., Nissen, B. and Wright, P.
Abstract

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.

KeywordsPerformance; performing research; self-situated research; public making; design from within; practice; sense-making
ConferenceCHI '17
Page range4825-4837
Proceedings TitleProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Hardcover9781450346559
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Online02 May 2017
Print02 May 2017
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Deposited27 Nov 2020
Accepted14 Dec 2016
Output statusPublished
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025751
Web of Science identifierWOS:000426970504058
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