“Interactive Technology as Toolkit: Structure of Communication, Senseware, and Research Strategy” presented by Vandenberghe, Gerling, Geurts, Abeele and Devleminck

Symposium:

• ISEA2019: 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Design and Public Art

• Interactive Technology as Toolkit: Structure of Communication, Senseware, and Research Strategy

• Bert Vandenberghe
• Kathrin Gerling
• Luc Geurts
• Vero Vanden Abeele
• Steven Devleminck

Venue(s):

• Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea

• This research introduces a toolkit for creating interactive ob- jects as a strategy to observe and discuss their construction and experience as scientific, artistic, and social subjects. Interac- tive technology as toolkit is presented to be senseware (Hara, 2009), following three specific trajectories in depth: the de- sign and programming of interactive objects; the understand- ing of rich interaction; and the role of the design objects and their concurrent (scientific) models into the lived-in world. A multi-viewpoint theoretical approach investigates the concept and use of toolkits based on interdisciplinary research, replac- ing single viewpoint categorization. This is coupled with the concept of thickening (Geertz, 1973), as the research seeks to define a liquid form of understanding capable of approaching the complexity of artifacts that cross media and discourses, illustrated with an exemplary case study of Skweezee, a squeeze interaction toolkit.

Category:

• Long Paper
• Paper