Paper Info
Title
SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award Talk - Creatively Crossing Boundaries.
Abstract
Augmenting, or enhancing, human creativity is one of the most important goals that the practice of human-computer interaction can aspire to. As Steve Jobs put it, the computer is \"the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds\" [1]. But it takes creativity to work out how to change the world. One of the important strategies for encouraging new ideas is to make connections across boundaries. Viewing one domain from the point of view of another has been my approach. The talk will review the beginnings of my work, in and between Art and HCI, from 50 years ago. It will show how the two areas creatively fed off of one another and how collaboration and community building contributed to the quest for that equivalent of a bicycle. The computer inspired major developments in interactive art and interactive art challenged human-computer interaction. That inspiration and those challenges are still with us today. From the start I argued that iterative design was essential even though, at the time, it was rejected by mainstream computer science. User interface software had to be transformed and interactive graphics had to be reformulated in order to enable Art to progress. Crossing boundaries has been a key strategy for innovation: generating new interactive art forms, new HCI concepts, new research methods. In the light of this history the talk will speculate on what the next 50 years might bring and how best we might work towards that future [2].
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3027063.3058591
CHI Extended Abstracts
Field
DocType
Citations 
Fine art,Computer science,Interactive art,Human–computer interaction,Community building,Iterative design,Creativity,User interface,Mainstream,Multimedia,User-centered design
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ernest A. Edmonds139484.36