2020
When Do Design Workshops Work (or Not)?
This provocation invites reflection on the use of design workshops in research. We are concerned that often, design workshops don't work; at least, not as their facilitators might have intended, or as effectively as they could do. In this short paper we draw from our own experiences of organizing and attending design workshops, to observe common challenges in using design workshops as a research tool. Though critical, we intend this paper to serve as a point of reflection for running more purposeful workshops, and being able to better articulate the research and design developed through them. Elsden, C., Tallyn, E. and Nissen, B., 2020, July. When Do Design Workshops Work (or Not)?. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 245-250). https://doi.org./10.1145/3393914.3395856
2020
How open is OpenGLAM? Identifying Barriers To Commercial and Noncommercial Reuse of Digitised Art Images
In recent years, OpenGLAM and the broader open license movement have been gaining momentum in the cultural heritage sector. The purpose of this paper is to examine OpenGLAM from the perspective of end users, identifying barriers for commercial and non-commercial reuse of openly licensed art images. Valeonti, F., Terras, M. and Hudson-Smith, A., 2020. How open is OpenGLAM? Identifying barriers to commercial and non-commercial reuse of digitised art images. Journal of Documentation, 76(1), pp.1-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2019-0109
2020
Smart Donations: Event-Driven Conditional Donations Using Smart Contracts On The Blockchain
Recent work has questioned the largely unconditional nature of charitable donations and explored the value of conditional giving with contemporary donors. In this paper, we extend this work by exploring how to operationalise features of conditionality in charitable giving, situated in the context of large international non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Trotter, L., Harding, M., Shaw, P., Davies, N., Elsden, C., Speed, C., Vines, J., Abadi, A. and Hallwright, J., 2020, December. Smart donations: Event-driven conditional donations using smart contracts on the blockchain. In Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 546-557). https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441014
2020
Designing Futures of Money and FinTech
In light of increasing cashlessness, platform economies, Open Banking APIs, financial bots and cryptocurrencies, money is on the move -becoming programmable, automated, data-driven and part of 'more than human' infrastructures. These financial futures demand that designers engage with difficult questions of economy and value, while retaining a sensibility to the many subtle and social qualities of money and our everyday economic interactions. This one-day workshop brought together practitioners and researchers to explore design challenges related to four broad themes: Designing with Transactional Data; Designing Alternative Representations of Value; Money, Automation, Power, and Control; and Financial Futures with Vulnerable Users. Elsden, C., Feltwell, T., Barros Pena, B., Nissen, B., Gloerich, I., Speed, C. and Vines, J., 2020, July. Designing futures of money and fintech. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 429-432). https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395904
2020
Creative Informatics Data Management Plan (Version 1.1)
This document comprises the two Data Management Plans that we have submitted to the AHRC and the University of Edinburgh’s Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact (RKEI) office. We are sharing this document as an exemplar, and in the interests of transparency for all those we work with directly, as collaborators and as research participants. Lechelt, S., Orme, A., Terras, M., Osborne, N. (2020). Creative Informatics Data Management Plan (1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4058235
2020
Cataloguing Creative Informatics Projects: First Report (2018 – 2020)
Focussed on projects funded and initiated in the first two years of the Creative Informatics cluster, we have systematically catalogued 44 of the projects that Creative Informatics has funded, based on their initial (and extensive) funding applications. Elsden, C., Lechelt, S., Jenkins, A., Helgason, I., Panneels, I., Thornton, P., Orme, A., Osborne, N., Chan, K., Turner, M., Upton, L., Rovatsos, M., Jones, C., Schafer, B., Smyth, M., Speed, C., & Terras, M. (2021). Cataloguing Creative Informatics Projects: First Report (2018 - 2020) (1.0). https://zenodo.org/records/4704712
2020
The Man Who Wasn’t There Again: Creative informatics and legal AI
As legal AI becomes a viable competitor for human lawyers, concern about technological unemployment is reaching the legal profession. One response is a re-orientation of the value proposition of legal service industry, focusing less on knowledge and analytical reasoning skills to «soft» skills such as creativity. This however makes two problematic assumptions: that creativity is a positive trait of good legal advice, and that it is indeed both beyond machine intelligence. This paper aims to challenge both assumptions. Schafer, B., 2020. The man who wasn’t there again: Creative informatics and legal AI. International Trends in Legal Informatics: Festschrift fur Erich Schweighofe. Bern: Weblaw AG, pp.293-320. Microsoft Word - 16_S_293-320_Schafer (weblaw.ch) https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/the-man-who-wasnt-there-again-creative-informatics-and-legal-ai
2020
A Mobile Platform for Event-Driven Donations Using Smart Contracts
We demonstrate Smart Donations, a blockchain powered mobile platform and application that facilitates a novel model for real-time, condition-based donations using smart contracts. Trotter, L., Harding, M., Elsden, C., Davies, N. and Speed, C., 2020, March. A mobile platform for event-driven donations using smart contracts. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (pp. 108-108). https://doi.org./10.1145/3376897.3379161
2020
Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring
Design futuring approaches, such as speculative design, design fiction and others, seek to (re)envision futures and explore alternatives. As design futuring becomes established in HCI design research, there is an opportunity to expand and develop these approaches. To that end, by reflecting on our own research and examining related work, we contribute five modes of reflection. These modes concern formgiving, temporality, researcher positionality, real-world engagement, and knowledge production. Kozubaev, S., Elsden, C., Howell, N., Søndergaard, M.L.J., Merrill, N., Schulte, B. and Wong, R.Y., 2020, April. Expanding modes of reflection in design futuring. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). https://doi.org./10.1145/3313831.3376526
2020
Designing for the End of Life of IoT Objects
The Internet of Things (IoT) and ubiquitous computing are leading to an increase in objects with a short lifespan, leading to a surplus of material and e-waste that cannot or is not readily recycled, upcycled or otherwise reused. In part, this is due to the use of unrecyclable materials and custom-built hardware. However, it is also due to the limited value people place on these objects (e.g., sentimental and environmental). This workshop explored how the configuration of values designed into IoT objects influences the end-user practices of disposal, recycling and upcycling. Lechelt, S., Gorkovenko, K., Soares, L.L., Speed, C., Thorp, J.K. and Stead, M., 2020, July. Designing for the end of life of IoT objects. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 417-420). https://doi.org./10.1145/3393914.3395918
