Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction
This project takes a closer look at arts in HCI. It shows that practices go beyond prominent realms such as sketching for UX Design and design probes from participants and involve a variety of arts-based expressions by researchers, the researched and third parties, e.g. graphic facilitators.
Inspired by visual artist Mauro Toselli’s Sketchnote Army Travelling Sketchbook, international researchers and artists contributed to a 'Travelling Sketchbook for Arts in HCI’, showcasing their arts-based practice in HCI. The researchers and artists are from Canada, China, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
The resulting sketchbook explores the intersection between HCI and artistic expression, illuminating what it means to use art in HCI. It shows the breadth of Arts in HCI, illustrating the many fruitful possibilities for extending existing research and dissemination methods in HCI. It also calls into question current practices, which often do not recognise the significance of artist attribution, and, in turn, advocates for equal authorship between principal researchers and contributing artists.
What impact did it have?
This project led to the publication of an AltCHI paper at CHI’2024 and was presented at the 1st Nordic Pre-CHI at KTH in Stockholm in March 2024 and in May 2024 at the CHI Howay 2024 as part of Digital Civics Exchange DCX 2024, Northumbria University, UK.
- Lewis, Makayla, Miriam Sturdee, Denise Lengyel, Mauro Toselli, John Miers, Violet Owen, Josh Urban Davis, Swen E Gaudl, Lanxi Xiao, Ernesto Priego, Kim Snooks, Laia Turmo Vidal, Eli Blevis, Nicola Privato, Patricia Piedade, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Beatriz Severes, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Caroline Claisse, Raksanda Mehnaz Huq, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Anna Troisi, Ana O Henriques, Ar Grek, Gareth McMurchy, RAY LC, Sara Nabil, Jacinta Jardine, Robert Collins, Andrey Vlasov, Yana Knight, Michele Cremaschi, Silvia Carderelli-Gronau, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Jean-Philippe Riviere. Travelling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24).
- Lengyel, Denise. Presentation at the 1st Nordic Pre-CHI at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden: "Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction" (AltCHI'24 paper), March 2024.
- Lengyel, Denise. Talk at the CHI Howay 2024 as part of Digital Civics Exchange DCX 2024, Northumbria University, UK : "Travelling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction" (AltCHI'24 paper), May 2024.