Engagements2 as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies

Rob Phillips; Nick Gant; Mel Jordan; Sarah Teasley; Gail Ramster; Katie Gaudion; Katie Spragg; Hannah Franklin Stewart; Mel Brimfield

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8

Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies

Rob Phillips, Nick Gant, Mel Jordan, Sarah Teasley, Gail Ramster, Katie Gaudion, Katie Spragg, Hannah Franklin Stewart, Mel Brimfield

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Abstract

HCI has material attributes. As a sociotechnical assemblage, HCI mediates and/or translates technologies to public(s) and vice versa. It is malleable, ‘made’ and crafted and as a material media technology changes our relationships to ‘things’, each other and our surrounding world. Thinking through HCI as material allows us to unite disciplines with technologies, ensuring that how we conceptualise work is tangible and applicable. Working from this understanding of HCI, allows the authors to contextualise Engagements² as an emerging ‘material’ space uniting art, design and other practices often fractured through disciplinary conventions. Traditionally, public engagement encompasses ways organisations engage with external parties. HCI contemporaries, Public Interest Technologies (PITs) empower public stakeholders and municipalities. PITs unravel intractable problems, through design, data, and delivery, thus providing user agency and yields wider societal benefit(s). We question how digital technologies can transition ‘public(s)’, to sustainable approaches. In time, Engagements² will be commonplace as technologies (PITs, augmented reality, IoT sensing and more) are embedded into public environment(s), if engagement can be defined as a ‘craft-able’, material concern. The article unites contemporaries in: the public realm, social design, and public engagement methods to identify the: pitfalls, benefits, and opportunities. There is a need for creating a ‘best practice’ roadmap to creative, active engagement. These values go well beyond designing for inclusion and seek for more sustainable and integral interactions, impacts and culture creation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Masaaki Kurosu
Publisher	SpringerOpen
Pages	117-136
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9783031053108
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2022
Event	Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Virtual, Online Duration: 26 Jun 2022 → 1 Jul 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13302 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Abbreviated title	HCII 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	26/06/22 → 1/07/22

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8

Copyright © and Moral Rights are retained by the author(s) and/ or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.

Funded by: (RCA) Research Office, (RP/CS/157: 800076). Informed by My Naturewatch, EPSRC (Grant EP/P006353/1). Thanks to: Sarah West, Something & Sons, Bailey Richardson, Susan Hamilton & Christie Walker.

This document is the author’s post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it.

Funded by: (RCA) Research Office, (RP/CS/157: 800076). Informed by My Naturewatch, EPSRC (Grant EP/P006353/1). Thanks to: Sarah West, Something & Sons, Bailey Richardson, Susan Hamilton & Christie Walker.

Keywords

Creative practice
Engagement
Human computer interaction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Phillips, R., Gant, N., Jordan, M., Teasley, S., Ramster, G., Gaudion, K., Spragg, K., Franklin Stewart, H., & Brimfield, M. (2022). Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies. In M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings (pp. 117-136). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13302 LNCS). SpringerOpen. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8

Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies. / Phillips, Rob; Gant, Nick; Jordan, Mel et al.
Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Masaaki Kurosu. SpringerOpen, 2022. p. 117-136 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13302 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Phillips, R, Gant, N, Jordan, M, Teasley, S, Ramster, G, Gaudion, K, Spragg, K, Franklin Stewart, H & Brimfield, M 2022, Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies. in M Kurosu (ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13302 LNCS, SpringerOpen, pp. 117-136, Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual, Online, 26/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8

Phillips R, Gant N, Jordan M, Teasley S, Ramster G, Gaudion K et al. Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies. In Kurosu M, editor, Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings. SpringerOpen. 2022. p. 117-136. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05311-5_8

Phillips, Rob ; Gant, Nick ; Jordan, Mel et al. / Engagements² as ‘HCI Material’ : Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies. Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods - Thematic Area, HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings. editor / Masaaki Kurosu. SpringerOpen, 2022. pp. 117-136 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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