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Summary Sentence: Research at Copenhagen IT University: Design for Social, Cultural, and Personal Engagement
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Title:
Research at Copenhagen IT University: Design for Social, Cultural, and Personal Engagement
Abstract:
As part of a collaborative workshop, Georgia Tech is hosting seven faculty members from Copenhagen IT University. These faculty have a wide range of research projects and interests including interaction and participatory design, videogames and new forms of play, cultural heritage, and material media. Three of the faculty will offer short presentations to indicate the breadth and depth of this work:
Presenters:
Anders Sundaes Løvlie -Playful Interfaces to Digital Cultural Heritage
In Europe, massive efforts have been made to digitize and make accessible online the large amount of cultural heritage objects on display in museums and other heritage institutions. While success is typically measured in the number of millions of objects that have been added to a database, few or none popular services for end-users have been created. This talk will take a brief look at the possibility of using playful design approaches to address this problem, based on a project proposal we are currently seeking funding for.
Anders Sundnes Løvlie is Assistant Professor at ITU. His research focuses on communication design, locative media and online debate.
Erik Grönvall - Participation through design, use and the community
The way in which we involve diverse stakeholders in collaborative design processes (i.e. co-design) have changed drastically over the last 40 years. With the ‘third wave of HCI’ we have moved both the design and use of technology out of the workplace and into peoples’ everyday lives. As an effect, the use and appropriation of technology potentially involves more actors and distributed settings compared with a workplace scenario. The move from design to use within ‘third wave’ co-design also emphasises participation (in society, the local community, etc) and how to design for participation. Using some recent and ongoing projects, this talk will briefly present aspects of participation, participatory design and co-design.
Erik Grönvall is an Associate Professor at ITU. His research foci are on Participatory Design and participation, physical computing and to understand the role of technology in everyday life (for example in out-of-clinic care).
Anna Vallgårda - Giving form to computational things
The computer is no longer at the center of attention rather it is only one our of many materials which constitutes the computational things we use and design today. As a result what we design is not merely interfaces to well-known physical forms and forms of interaction. Instead interaction design has become a form-giving practice in which we have to deal with both physical form, temporal form, and the interaction gestalt. This talk will take a brief look at what the negotiations between the trinity of forms will entail in practice.
Anna Vallgårda is an Associate Professor and Head of the IxD lab at ITU. Her research focuses on developing interaction design as a material practice through constructive design research.
