Abstract (Long paper)

Keywords: Documentation, research through art, research through design, experience design, exhibition

The practice of research through art and design can pose challenges in terms of evaluating contributions, formalizing methodologies and generating extensible principles. Creating a middle layer of critique and interpretation between the generated artifacts of research through art and design and the foundation of general theory provides a viable space for exploration. We propose integrating artifact description, process documentation and participatory annotation as a useful approach in this intermediate critical area. We introduce a multimodal documentation framework for capturing, annotating and presenting the activities, processes and generated artifacts of research through art and design practice. We describe findings from our experience documenting a series of research through design workshops, and illustrate our annotation and presentation approach in the form of a curated exhibition.

• Aisling Kelliher, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Aisling is an associate professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech University, USA, within the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. She also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at VT. Aisling creates and studies interactive media systems for enhancing reflection, learning and communication. Her work is grounded within the fields of human-computer-interaction, multimedia, and interaction design, and is motivated by a desire to carefully integrate computational processes into our everyday mediated experiences. Aisling received a PhD in Media, Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab. She also holds an MSc in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
• Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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