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RESCHEDULED to September – Utilising Visual Research Methods in Human Computer Interaction
April 17, 2020 at 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
| Location: | 238 Azrieli Pavilion |
| Cost: | Free |
Presenter
Miriam Sturdee, Research Fellow, Lancaster University
Abstract
Human Computer Interaction is a hybrid study, and as such is open to new ways of creating, analysing, and working with data. Within this context, data is not numbers on a spreadsheet, but the hand-drawn image, and its associated processes. Here, I document a journey through sketching, drawing, painting and other visual arts as they pertain to the study of present and future technology. If we are all already designers, then we are most certainly all therefore artists, because to sketch is a universal construct, and one that can be used for subjective, communicative and impactful research. Visual research methods already have a billetted place in the social sciences and beyond, now they deserve more attention in the technological domain: beyond Sarah Pink’s seminal work on visual ethnography, where might we take these methods within computer science?
Biography
Miriam Sturdee is a research fellow at Lancaster University whose interests focus on the intersections of traditional creative practices and computer science. Prior to her current role, she held postdoctoral positions in data physicalisation (Lancaster) and InfoVis (University of Calgary). Prior to PhD she studied psychology and fine art, and held jobs in marketing and publishing design. This enables a view of technology from an outsider’s perspective: what works, what doesn’t, what could, or needs to change? How might we use creative methods to do this?