ADRIAN HAZZARD Adrian.Hazzard@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Failing with Style: Designing for Aesthetic Failure in Interactive Performance
Hazzard, Adrian; Greenhalgh, Chris; Kallionp��, Maria; Benford, Steve; Veinberg, Anne; Kanga, Zubin; McPherson, Andrew
Authors
CHRIS GREENHALGH CHRIS.GREENHALGH@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Computer Science
Maria Kallionp��
STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science
Anne Veinberg
Zubin Kanga
Andrew McPherson
Abstract
Failure is a common artefact of challenging experiences, a fact of life for interactive systems but also a resource for aesthetic and improvisational performance. We present a study of how three professional pianists performed an interactive piano composition that included playing hidden codes within the music so as to control their path through the piece and trigger system actions. We reveal how apparent failures to play the codes occurred for diverse reasons including mistakes in their playing, limitations of the system, but also deliberate failures as a way of controlling the system, and how these failures provoked aesthetic and improvised responses from the performers. We propose that creative and performative interfaces should be designed to enable aesthetic failures and introduce a taxonomy that compares human approaches to failure with approaches to capable systems, revealing new creative design strategies of gaming, taming, riding and serving the system.
Citation
Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., Kallionpää, M., Benford, S., Veinberg, A., Kanga, Z., & McPherson, A. (2019). Failing with Style: Designing for Aesthetic Failure in Interactive Performance. In CHI '19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland UK — May 04 - 09, 2019 (1–14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300260
Presentation Conference Type | Edited Proceedings |
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Conference Name | CHI '19: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Start Date | May 4, 2019 |
End Date | May 9, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | Dec 10, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | May 2, 2019 |
Publication Date | May 2, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jan 14, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 14, 2019 |
Pages | 1–14 |
Book Title | CHI '19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland UK — May 04 - 09, 2019 |
Chapter Number | Paper no. 30 |
ISBN | 9781450359702 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300260 |
Keywords | Musical performance; aesthetic failure; interactive systems; design; musical codes |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1466976 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3290605.3300260 |
Related Public URLs | https://sigchi.org/ https://dl.acm.org/ |
Contract Date | Jan 14, 2019 |
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