Employing Creative Practice as a Research Method in the Field of Wearable and Interactive Technologies

TY - GEN

T1 - Employing Creative Practice as a Research Method in the Field of Wearable and Interactive Technologies

AU - Frankjær, Raune

AU - Flanagan, Patricia

AU - Gilgen, Daniel

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - With the emergence of relatively accessible programmable micro- controllers, artistic use and designer application of wearable technologies have increased significantly over the last decade. This paper suggests these creations are more than a mere implementation of emerging technologies for creative practitioners to extend their artistic expression, but a method applicable within research and development. Creative practitioners generally approach their sub- ject matter intuitively and holistically and are therefore capable of facilitating insights where rational approaches may not. Working on the periphery of com- puter science has the advantage of an outsider perspective, which can result in un-thought of solutions to previously unresolved problems. In this paper we discuss the merits of this approach within wearable and interactive research and describe one such procedure on the basis of a wearable device.

AB - With the emergence of relatively accessible programmable micro- controllers, artistic use and designer application of wearable technologies have increased significantly over the last decade. This paper suggests these creations are more than a mere implementation of emerging technologies for creative practitioners to extend their artistic expression, but a method applicable within research and development. Creative practitioners generally approach their sub- ject matter intuitively and holistically and are therefore capable of facilitating insights where rational approaches may not. Working on the periphery of com- puter science has the advantage of an outsider perspective, which can result in un-thought of solutions to previously unresolved problems. In this paper we discuss the merits of this approach within wearable and interactive research and describe one such procedure on the basis of a wearable device.

KW - Creative practice, alternative research methods, wearable technolo- gies, interactive technologies, Arts-Based Research, insight, outsiders percep- tion, Bamboo Whisper, perception of communication

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_7

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 31

EP - 35

BT - Design, User Experience, and Usability: Users and Interactions: 4th International Conference, DUXU 2015.

PB - Springer

T2 - 4th International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, DUXU 2015 Held as Part of 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2015

Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 7 August 2015

ER -