The studio as laboratory: Combining creative practice and digital technology research

Edmonds, Ernest; Weakley, Alastair; Candy, Linda; Fell, Mark; Knott, Roger; Pauletto, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.04.012

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“…Friedman (2000) states that "Practitioners sometimes reject vital streams of research while seeking solutions that do work" (p.22). This perspective is further elaborated by Edmonds et al (2005) who suggest that the underlying failing of experimental study is that the subject is not design practice itself but actually a simulation of practice in an contrived context. As such, a key point of contention can be characterised as the unknown affect that simulation and contrived context have on designer activity.…”

Section: A Comparison Of Designer Activity Using Core Design Situatiomentioning

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A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice

2013

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. A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice. Design Studies, 34(5), 575--611. DOI: 10.1016DOI: 10. /j.destud.2013 A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice Philip A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practiceIn 2011 one quarter of all articles published in Design Studies and the Journal of EngineeringDesign used experimental studies. However, there is little work exploring the relationship between laboratory and practice. This paper addresses this by detailing an analysis of designer activity in three situations commonly studied by design researchers: information seeking, ideation and design review. This comparison is instantiated through three complementary studies: an observational study of practice and two experimental studies.These reveal a range of similarities and differences that are described using a mixed methods approach. Based on this it is concluded that laboratory studies are important research tools and that clear and definable relationships do exist between design activity in practice and the laboratory.Keywords: experiment; designer activity; practice; laboratory; research methodsExperimental studies play a key role in design research, accounting for a quarter of all articles in Design Studies (7 out of 28) and the Journal of Engineering Design (9 out of 40) in 2011. However, practitioners often perceive there to be a dichotomy between fundamental experimental study and applied, practice based, design research. Friedman (2000) states that "Practitioners sometimes reject vital streams of research while seeking solutions that do work" (p.22). This perspective is further elaborated by Edmonds et al. (2005) who suggest that the underlying failing of experimental study is that the subject is not design practice itself but actually a simulation of practice in an contrived context. As such, a key point of contention can be characterised as the unknown affect that simulation and contrived context have on designer activity.This type of issue also appears in many fields related to design research. For example, Eifert et al. (1999), in behavioural research, state that the relevance of laboratory based research has been understated due to the gap in understanding external validity. Further, both Bonetti et al. (2010) in behavioural research andMarsden (2007) in education research have adopted the approach of developing intermediary studies -taking an experimental approach into a practice 2 context - in order to directly address this gap. Bolton and Ockenfels (2008) describe this as losing control in a controlled way. Although this approach can be important it is most effective when based on substantive theory, allowing key factors to be controlled as well as offering predictions to be examined (Levitt & List, 2007). As little predictive theory is currently available in design research the authors argue that as a field, we are not yet ready to fully adopt ...

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A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice

2013

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“…In this project we are most interested in achieving the last, though in practice, much of what our system does could be considered under the second. For a more thorough overview of co-creativity and its role within computational creativity research, see the proceeding of The International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012 (Maher, 2012), and for a broader of view of the term in relation to computing, look to the work of Edmonds and Candy (Edmonds et al, 2005;Candy and Edmonds, 2002).…”

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (CC-NLG 2017)

2017

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“…This question has guided the work of researchers, artists, and technologist in the last 40 years [3], [8], [4]. Given that software is getting increased power on the way people experience art and culture, increased knowledge about the intersection of software and art benefits cultural industries, which produce media for publishing, museums, and entertainment.…”

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Open Software and Art: A Tutorial

Jaccheri

2011

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

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Abstract. The tutorial is devoted mainly to PhD students, researchers, educators, and artists who are interested to learn, practice, and reflect about software tools for creativity and art. In this work, we chose to focus on open source software and its intersection with art. This choice is motivated by significant related work in open source software and art and available software for art like Processing, Arduino, and Scratch. Four research questions will shape the discussion: 1) Development or use of software? 2) Who are the stakeholders? 3) How to evaluate art and technology works? 4) Are there feelings beyond creativity and amusement one should aim at when designing art and technology expressions?

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The studio as laboratory: Combining creative practice and digital technology research

Cited by 73 publications

References 30 publications

A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice

A comparison of designer activity using core design situations in the laboratory and practice

Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (CC-NLG 2017)

Open Software and Art: A Tutorial

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