“A Practitioner’s Objects: Reflections on a Slow Data Practice” presented by Khoo
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Time (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- A Practitioner’s Objects: Reflections on a Slow Data Practice
Presentation Subtheme:
- Shifting temporalities
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Abstract:
A creative practice that entangles the digital medium with consumer-oriented data and experience will invariably engage with notions of efficiency and the consequent brevity of digital data presentation. This is particularly the case when said digital data is consumed through the all-too-familiar digital screen. The vernacular of digitally augmented design processes emphasises this quality – a heavy lean towards succinct, contextually aware, ubiquitous experience and the promise of the everywhere, made even more possible by mobile and touchscreen-bound computing devices. As a counterpoint to this focus on interaction brevity, the notion of slow data encourages a rethinking of this strategy, suggesting the introduction of temporal-centric intents and layers of expressing data. This intervention speaks to a technologically backgrounded motif of the everywhen, and encourages creative practitioners to engage, through various outcomes, strategies and frameworks, the significance of slow data thinking in the human-computer interfaces that we create. This is supported by a reflective account and discussion of three works that have contributed towards an understanding of slow data practice.
