Performing Research: Four contributions to HCI

Taylor, Robyn; Spence, Jocelyn; Walker, Brendan; Nissen, Bettina; Wright, Peter

Abstract

This paper identifies a body of HCI research wherein the researchers take part in digitally mediated creative experiences alongside participants. We present our definition and rationale for "self-situated performance research" based on theories in both the HCI and performance literatures. We then analyse four case studies of this type of work, ranging from overtly "performative" staged events to locative audio and public making. We argue that by interrogating experience from within the context of self-situated performance, the ‘performer/researcher’ extends traditional practices in HCI in the following four ways: developing an intimate relationship between researchers and participants, providing new means of making sense of interactions, shaping participants’ relationship to the research, and enabling researchers to refine their work as it is being conducted.

Citation

Taylor, R., Spence, J., Walker, B., Nissen, B., & Wright, P. (2017). Performing Research: Four contributions to HCI. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17 (4825-4837). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025751

• Conference Name: CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Conference Location: Colorado, Denver, USA
• Start Date: May 6, 2017
• End Date: May 11, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Nov 21, 2016
• Publication Date: May 2, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 8, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 8, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 4825-4837
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17
• ISBN: 9781450346559
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025751
• Keywords: Performance; performing research; self-situated research;; public making; design from within; practice; sense-making
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/858478
• Publisher URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025751&CFID=794972891&CFTOKEN=26124136
• Additional Information: Published in: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 4825-4837. New York : ACM, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4655-9. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025751