Monday 16 February 2015

teaser for HCI folks

The background for Performative Experience Design in an HCI context was set out in this alt.chi paper. In it we basically take to task every poor soul working in HCI or interaction design who has ever tried to use performance as an input or structure for their design work, and very few emerge unscathed. This isn't necessarily because we think this work was done badly - but we do think it could have gone much, much further.

So if you'd like to read a paper that could have been subtitled 'Why Most People Get Performance and Performativity Totally Wrong' - written by, I promise, the sweetest three people you're likely to meet in a given day in academia - have a look.

But don't forget, this is a very short paper addressing PED in a very lopsided way - only talking about how HCI people have used performance in the past. PED sits in the space equidistant from both HCI/interaction design and performance studies. I'll blog more about the performance side of things soon.

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