DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2154808
Joan Soler-Adillon
{"title":"Experimenting with non-fiction VR storytelling: micronarrative, abstraction and interactive navigation. The case of In Pieces VR","authors":"Joan Soler-Adillon","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2154808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2154808","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents In Pieces VR, a VR-based artwork and experimental documentary on political prison, and discusses its main design challenges, goals, and creative approach. This project aims at creating a documentary and artistic experience that departs from conventional immersive journalism by presenting to its viewers a story made out of very small narrative units, and with subjects presented in the form of virtual sculptures devoid of any specific identity. The idea is that by leaving much of the making sense left open, viewers will have to fill in the gaps. The working hypothesis is that this will help create a different emotional, intellectual and political connection with the piece than that a conventional documentary would achieve, particularly to an audience unfamiliar with, or even politically alien to its specific context. Public exhibition of the work and user evaluation showed that the piece was successful in creating such connections.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"349 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2141262
Ghada Amoudi, Amal Almansour, Carolyn Watters, D. Alahmadi, Fatimah Alruwaili, Sara Alzahrani
{"title":"Tweet for help: the role of social media in disaster events and the case of the 2015 Mina stampede","authors":"Ghada Amoudi, Amal Almansour, Carolyn Watters, D. Alahmadi, Fatimah Alruwaili, Sara Alzahrani","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2141262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2141262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social networks are important communication channel where individuals and emergency agencies can exchange information during disasters. The ability to detect disaster information or ‘reporting’ tweets would provide many advantages in disaster management during crowded events. This study explores Twitter behaviour during the Mina stampede tragedy in the 2015 Hajj by processing tweets posted over seven days during and after the incident (24–30 September 2015). Statistical features were derived from tweets, such as the number of hashtags, user mentions, and links, to provide an overview of the use of Twitter during this disaster. A classification model was built to filter reporting tweets using two Arabic natural language processing tools: Farasa and MADAMIRA. A support vector machine with a radial basis function kernel generated the best results in both tools (F-score: 88%–89%). The results will be useful to those who manage large, crowded events such as Hajj in Arabic-speaking regions.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"329 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44571175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2138452
A. Reddy
{"title":"Artificial everyday creativity: creative leaps with AI through critical making","authors":"A. Reddy","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2138452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2138452","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The capabilities of humans and AI systems to be creative and perform alongside one another have given rise to new practices of ‘artificial creativity’. In this article, I argue that artificial creativity demonstrates the potential to empower individuals to interface and critically dialogue with computational systems. Reframed as artificial ‘everyday’ creativity, I focus on the curious, joyful and adjacent modes of everyday creativity by including hybrid materials that embrace alternative pedagogies of code and computation. Through the interdisciplinary design approach of ‘critical making’, I craft two unconventionally-coded artefacts that dialogue with AI systems, namely CryptoCrochet-Key and Internet of Towels. Both artefacts are analysed using a four-pronged creativity framework to understand the material translation processes in the artificial everyday creativity practice. With rising concerns about AI's role in misinformation, bias and discrimination, the discussion explores the generative value and limitations of artificial everyday creativity towards the broader goals of civic data literacy and user empowerment.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"295 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42209803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2138453
H. Mainsah, Emma L. Slade, Dag Slettemeås, D. Southerton, A. Storm-Mathisen
{"title":"Methodological innovations and challenges of research on digitally connected homes: an introduction","authors":"H. Mainsah, Emma L. Slade, Dag Slettemeås, D. Southerton, A. Storm-Mathisen","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2138453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2138453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Digital automated and connected technologies are playing a central role shaping how home life is experienced and understood. This emerging digital ecology is also reconstituting the home as a site of research and the methods required to study it. This article introduces a collection of contributions that highlight methodological issues and avenues for researching life in technology-saturated home environments. The contributions make the case for qualitative, creative, collaborative, computational, and quantitative methodological approaches.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"183 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43357184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2082488
A. Becker, Benedikt Haupt, Arne Berger, C. Pentzold
{"title":"Future home stories: participatory predicaments and methodological scaffolding in narrative speculation on alternative domestic lives","authors":"A. Becker, Benedikt Haupt, Arne Berger, C. Pentzold","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2082488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2082488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Not infrequently, smart home imaginaries and installations are envisaged for nuclear families dwelling in detached houses fitted with the latest Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. In our article, we follow one approach to escape this powerful but inadequate projection that entails inviting people to imagine alternative forms of domestic IoT use. Surveying the setup of these nascent endeavours, in particular attempts that pivot on narrative accounts and forward-oriented fictions on the design of new habitats, we show how these seek to evoke visions of technologically supported cohabitation and everyday life. Due to their inclusive ambitions, such approaches face participatory predicaments that arise from the sought-after spontaneity and creativity within a purposive process. In response, all of them resort to methodological scaffolding that helps their designers to reconcile the tension between the idiosyncrasies embraced by the procedures and the overarching requirements of a particular exercise.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"276 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45421267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2130943
C. Paupini, H. F. Teigen, Laurence Habib
{"title":"A change of space: implications of digital fieldwork in connected homes during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"C. Paupini, H. F. Teigen, Laurence Habib","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2130943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2130943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on research conducted in ten Norwegian households, this article describes the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing regulations have had on the research design and, consequently, on research data. The article describes how the research design had to be adapted to a variety of containment measures that were imposed during the fieldwork, and how this has influenced the researchers’ rapport with informants and access to the field and the challenges that emerged. It also describes a more active role for the participants in the study, whose agency was enhanced. The article proposes a new way of approaching fieldwork in homes adopting ‘methodological improvisation’ and concludes with recommendations for future research, proposing digital ethnography methods as both an option that enables data collection during a pandemic and as a sustainable alternative to certain methodologies that belong to traditional ethnography.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"204 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45932786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2127773
A. Friday, M. Hazas, Oliver Bates, J. Morley, Carolynne Lord, Kelly Widdicks, Alexandra Gormally, A. Clear
{"title":"Unpacking the resource impacts of digitally-mediated domestic practices using resource trace interviewing","authors":"A. Friday, M. Hazas, Oliver Bates, J. Morley, Carolynne Lord, Kelly Widdicks, Alexandra Gormally, A. Clear","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2127773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2127773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The home has been the subject of investigation in the social sciences and interaction design communities for decades. This has been driven not least by a wish to understand technology, energy demand, and how it might be understood in terms of social practices. In this paper, we reflect on several studies that have sought to capture this relationship. We introduce an evolving methodological approach we term ‘Resource Trace Interviewing’ that extends interview practice using visualizations of fine-grained quantitative data from sensors and software deployed in the home. By facilitating fuller accounts and joint sense-making between participants and researchers, this method better reveals the patterns of technology and energy use in the digitally connected home, and how this in turn relates to domestic practices. We reflect, for the first time, on the strengths and limitations of this approach as a guide to others studying similar socio-technical settings.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"250 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43261080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2088560
Melisa Duque, S. Pink, Michael Mortimer, Y. Strengers, Rex Martin, L. Nicholls, Ben Horan, Alicia Eugene, Sue Thomson
{"title":"Troubleshooting as a method in COVID-19 times: smart home ethnographies and remote aged care innovation","authors":"Melisa Duque, S. Pink, Michael Mortimer, Y. Strengers, Rex Martin, L. Nicholls, Ben Horan, Alicia Eugene, Sue Thomson","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2088560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2088560","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article outlines and demonstrates the practice of troubleshooting as a method. We argue that as an interdisciplinary, collaborative, digital-hybridized and adaptable approach, troubleshooting provides an ethical opportunity to explore the experiences and outcomes of (older) people living with connected home technologies in ways that deliver novel and meaningful research insights. Our discussion draws on the experience of a project that worked with ageing people (70+) to tailor and explore their experiences with smart home devices to support their independence and wellbeing. A personalized suite of digital voice assistants (DVAs), robotic vacuum cleaners, smart lights, kettles and switches were installed into the domestic spaces and routines of 23 households and 33 participants living in rural Australia. The project team developed a methodological framework, which took an unplanned and innovative turn in response to the physical distancing challenges brought by COVID-19 lockdowns, with the social connectivity offered by the devices trialled, and the creative digital living skills between the project team and its participants. We conclude by identifying future areas of research at the intersection of smart technologies, aged care services and the home as a site of research and of ongoing methodological design.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"188 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49165115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2082487
L. Hjorth, G. Coombs, Kelly Hussey-Smith, J. V. Loon
{"title":"Work, care and creativity in a time of COVID-19: creatively mapping presence bleed in the home","authors":"L. Hjorth, G. Coombs, Kelly Hussey-Smith, J. V. Loon","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2082487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2082487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The pandemic restrictions and lockdowns have seen working from home (WFH) becoming a mundane practice. During the lockdowns, all movement were situated in the rhythms of the domestic and its infinite regresses of 'presence bleed' (Gregg [2011]. Work’s Intimacy. London: Polity.) – informal care of older parents and young children, the gendered nature of care work and its often invisible role as it convergences with uneven expectations around working from home (WFH) and home schooling. In June 2020 we developed an open call for responses to the Work, Care and Creativity Study (WCCS). The study sought to explore the lived experiences of primary carers who are also creative professionals working and caring from home (WCFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying creative practice techniques which use prompts (such as photos, drawing and creative writing responses) to elicit participant’s experiences and emotions, this study sought to render visible some of the overlooked experiences, perceptions and practices emerging over the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"219 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47220582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DIGITAL CREATIVITYPub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2022.2083640
Jane Mavoa, Bjørn Nansen, M. Carter, M. Gibbs
{"title":"Synchronizing multi-perspectival data of children’s digital play at home","authors":"Jane Mavoa, Bjørn Nansen, M. Carter, M. Gibbs","doi":"10.1080/14626268.2022.2083640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2083640","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studying digitally mediated play presents challenges in terms of how to view and record both the on-screen action and player’s bodies in physical space. Carrying out this research in a socially and technologically diverse range of family households poses further challenges, common to ethnographic media research in general. In this paper, we describe a method for generating richly detailed views of 6–8 year old children’s digital play with the game Minecraft, on a range of devices and in a range of household configurations. We explain the process undertaken in our own research, highlighting the need for flexibility and a collaborative approach between participants and researchers. We argue that collecting multi-perspectival recordings of digital play provides data that has the potential to greatly aid understanding of digital playworlds.","PeriodicalId":54180,"journal":{"name":"DIGITAL CREATIVITY","volume":"33 1","pages":"234 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44572151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}