2019
How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers?
This paper reflects upon the growing expectation for HCI research projects to collaborate closely with partners in industry and civil society. Specifically, we suggest that this type of engagement is often prefigured around the agendas, needs and capacity of diverse research partners, which researchers must then carefully negotiate. We explored this by describing the Creative Informatics programme, where our research and co-design activities were heavily influenced by the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Lechelt, S., Elsden, C., Helgason, I., Panneels, I., Smyth, M., Speed, C. and Terras, M., 2019, November. How Can We Balance Research, Participation and Innovation as HCI Researchers?. In Proceedings of the halfway to the future symposium 2019 (pp. 1-4). https://doi.org./10.1145/3363384.3363394
2019
On Virtual Auras: The cultural heritage object in the age of 3D digital reproduction
Making three-dimensional (3D) models for public-facing cultural heritage applications currently concentrates on creating digitised models that are as photo-realistic as possible. The virtual model should have, if possible, the same informational content as its subject, in order to act as a ‘digital surrogate’. Many cultural heritage objects have, to borrow an old term, aura: an affectual power to engender an emotional response in the viewer. The term ‘digital surrogate’ is commonly used when talking about 3D models in cultural heritage applications. Exploring the meaning of this term is highly valuable. The E-Curator project and subsequent work by Mona Hess has demonstrated the potential for 3D scanning technology for professional cultural heritage (CH) purposes and there are clear advantages to working in the digital realm. Visitors to CH institutions—members of the public with no privileged access to the exhibits—will have a very different experience to that of a CH professional. Hindmarch, J., Terras, M. and Robson, S., 2019. The cultural heritage object in the age of 3d digital reproduction. The Routledge international handbook of new digital practices in galleries, libraries, archives, museums and heritage sites, pp.243-256. On virtual auras | 22 | The cultural heritage object in the age of 3D (taylorfrancis.com)
2019
Words As Data: The vulnerability of language in an age of digital capitalism
Creative Informatics Researcher, Pip Thornton’s article on data security for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST). As part of CREST’s commitment to open access research, this text is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. Thornton P. Words as data: The vulnerability of language in an age of digital capitalism. Crest Security Review. 2019. Words as Data: The Vulnerability of Language in an Age of Digital Capitalism (crestresearch.ac.uk)
2018
Frontiers of Creative Industries: Exploring Structural and Categorical Dynamics
Creative industries are a growing and globally important area for both economic vitality and cultural expression of industrialized nations. The growth and dynamism of creative industries depends on “continuous innovation” that must manage inherent tensions such as novelty to attract consumers and sustain artistic expression and familiarity to aid comprehension and stabilize demand for cultural products. In this volume, the macro-structural conditions that shape creative industries – their institutional, categorical and structural dynamics- are examined to provide an overview of new trends and emerging issues in scholarship on this topic Jones, C. and Maoret, M., 2018. Frontiers of creative industries: Exploring structural and categorical dynamics. In Frontiers of creative industries: Exploring structural and categorical dynamics (Vol. 55, pp. 1-16). Emerald Publishing Limited. http://doi.org./10.1108/s0733-558x20180000055001
