Public space as a design factor in sharable technologies
John V.H. Bonner, Andrew Wilson, Lisa Roberts · University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield) · 2007
This position paper reports on some very early collaboration between an interaction design research group at Huddersfield University (live:lab) and a not-for-profit organisation known as Blink Media, also based in Huddersfield. Blink Media are grant funded through bodies such as NESTA and The Arts Council. Collaboration with live:lab was formed through a common interest in the design of creative user experiences using emerging and innovative technologies with an appreciation that our respective approaches were very different. Blink Media create artefacts and user experiences that are purely novel, intriguing and engaging. In contrast live:lab’s approach is to build an empirical and theoretical understanding of interaction design in terms of novel interactive technologies and in particular pragmatic design techniques required to develop them.