Jill Fantauzzacoffin

Digital art: evaluation, appreciation, critique (invited SIG)

This SIG examines the vexed question of evaluation of Digital Art and how lessons on evaluation can be exchanged between the arts and mainstream HCI. We start by looking at critiques of standard approaches to evaluation in HCI. We then look at approaches, which have been developed in Digital Art to merge qualitative and quantitative methods. These investigations set the agenda for the SIG with the aim of uncovering the audiences knowledge and attempts at Digital Art evaluation, appreciation and critique. The chief outcome will be an exchange of experiences and proposals for ways forward for both the Digital Arts community and the broader CHI community.

Digital arts: did you feel that?

This panel considers the relationships between the interactive arts, audience engagement and experience design. What might each offer the other? Engagement and experience are central to current HCI thinking. We will present and argue about the research issues of defining and understanding audience/user engagement and experience in the context of art.

The arts, HCI, and innovation policy discourse: invited panel

Although both HCI and innovation policy discourse have a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) basis, both also include trends that incorporate the arts. The purpose of this panel is to show how HCI/arts discourse and innovation policy/arts discourse inform each other. We then discuss with the audience how innovation initiatives configure programs and roles for artists and HCI professionals working in HCI/arts.

Articulating creative practice: teleological and stochastic strategies in a case study of an artist and an engineering team developing similar technologies

We describe teleological and stochastic patterns in creative strategy using a case from our comparative, multiple-case study of the work practices of artists and engineers separately developing similar technologies.

Articulating lines of research in digital arts, HCI, and interaction (invited SIG)

The establishment of a Digital Arts Featured Community at CHI 2012 indicates the general acceptance of mutually beneficial synergies between digital arts and HCI. At this juncture, the Digital Arts Community has an opportunity to build upon this established community platform to begin articulating lines of research. This SIG initiates this essential step in establishing traditions of contribution.

Negotiating uncertainty: process, artifact, and discourse in a case study of technologies to address SIDS

We describe the creative strategies used to develop two technologies that address sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). An engineer and his team developed one of the technologies and an artist developed the other. We discuss the creative strategies and the resulting technologies in terms of their negotiation of uncertainties occurring at many levels: the uncertainty of the creative process, the uncertainty of SIDS, and the uncertainty inherent in technological interventions for SIDS.

Digital art: challenging perspectives

In this SIG for the Digital Arts Community, we respond to the conference theme of changing perspectives by offering challenging perspectives. The challenge comes in a two-way exchange between Digital Art and HCI. On the one side we have the making of new and unique forms, i.e. synthesis. Whilst on the other, we have knowledge-making grounded in the human sciences and engineering, in other words, predicting and validating analysis. In this SIG session we will provoke a discussion on these contrasting challenging perspectives. How does knowledge emerge between synthesis and analysis?

Science vs. science: the complexities of interdisciplinary research

Human-Computer Interaction and Web Science are radically interdisciplinary fields, but what does this mean in practical terms? Undertaking research (and writing papers) that encompass multiple disciplinary perspectives and methods is a serious challenge and it is difficult to maintain conferences that fairly review and host contributions from multiple disciplines. The colocation of the ACM WebSci conference with CHI in Paris, offers an unusual opportunity to bring these two communities together. Previous discussions have considered how to conduct interdisciplinary work that bridges HCI/WebSci with specific areas. Our objective is to provide a space for interested researchers from both communities to share their views and approaches to tackling the tensions and complexities associated with interdisciplinary work, whatever fields are being bridged.

Research summary: multiple-case study of artists' and engineers' technology development practices

This research summary describes a comparative, multiple-case study of the work practices of artists and engineers independently developing similar technologies. The goal of the study is to develop evidence-based articulations, or vocabularies, to support the discourse of creative practice particularly with respect to technological innovation in the arts and engineering. This study informs part of my dissertation research, the overall project of which is to contribute to the body of scholarship that acts as ongoing articulation, clarification, and discourse about technological art, specifically when that art contributes to technological invention.