Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project

Thorn, Emily; Spence, Jocelyn; Koleva, Boriana; Benford, Steven David

Abstract

We report on a six-year collaboration with a small community organisation to develop and deploy a permanent physical / digital locative media experience as part on an ongoing community regeneration project. We describe how this unfolded over four phases: approach and pilot; public deployment; supporting subsequent community-led spin-off experiences; and planning legacy and technology handovers. The project was distinctive for being a Knowledge Exchange project in which we were approached and formally contracted by the community to deliver the digital technology, rather than instigating and leading a research project. We identify seven considerations for handing over technologies that combine both digital and physical elements to communities of stakeholders that encompass businesses, councils, and volunteers, and how this illuminates the unique strengths and weaknesses of Knowledge Exchange projects within the wider design research landscape.

Citation

Thorn, E., Spence, J., Koleva, B., & Benford, S. D. (2024). Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642620

• Conference Name: CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Conference Location: Honolulu HI USA
• Start Date: May 11, 2024
• End Date: May 16, 2024
• Acceptance Date: Mar 14, 2024
• Online Publication Date: May 11, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-05
• Deposit Date: May 15, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: May 15, 2024
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 9798400703300
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642620
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/34862211
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642620