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Performance-Led Research in the Wild

Authors:

Chris Greenhalgh,

Martin Flintham,

Brendan Walker,

Boriana Koleva,

Stefan Rennick Egglestone,

Gabriella Giannachi,

Nick Tandavanitj,

Ju Row FarrAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 20, Issue 3

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491500.2491502

Published: 01 July 2013 Publication History

Abstract

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed and studied at public performance in cultural settings such as galleries, festivals and on the city streets. We motivate the approach and then describe how it consists of three distinct activities -- practice, studies and theory -- that are interleaved in complex ways through nine different relationships. We present a historical account of how the approach has evolved over a fifteen-year period, charting the evolution of a complex web of projects, papers, and relationships between them. We articulate the challenges of pursuing each activity as well as overarching challenges of balancing artistic and research interests, flexible management of relationships, and finally ethics.

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1. Human-centered computing
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    1. HCI theory, concepts and models
    2. Interaction paradigms
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
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    2. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Volume 20, Issue 3

Special Issue of “The Turn to The Wild”

July 2013

177 pages

ISSN:1073-0516

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DOI:10.1145/2491500

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