I had a dialogue with the steering committee and general chairs - they're not interested in having alt.chi at next year's conference, but encourage the same sort of content to exist in workshops, meetups, and to be submitted to the main track... as I understand it.
image of a river delta with text overlaid that discusses various aspects of design research in a metaphorical manner... two yellow post-it notes are also shown on top of the image with negative comments from reviewers.
Going to be at @acm-dis.bsky.social in the next week? Have an amazing thing to share that was rejected from the main conference? Do this: chrisspeed.wixsite.com/piratedis2025
I'll be presenting this river delta, which was not appreciated by peer reviewers!
CC @chrisspeed.bsky.social
Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...
A workshop at DIS25 on Saturday the 5th of July exploring the temporalities of speculation.
Submissions open now! See here: www.sixdegreesworkshop.com
New paper discussing the idea of “holistic prompt craft” … it’s about strategies for designing interfaces for genAI that are more intuitive. Based on lots of learning from our Shadowplay project. See what you think! designresearch.works/blog/towards...
Have a look at these portraits created using a voice-driven version of our PromptTank system and in collaboration with a group of people living with dementia and their families/carers. Lots more to come on this, for now, see what you think: designresearch.works/blog/portrai...
In April I will be visiting Australia to continue my quest to understand design, research, practice and knowledge production (see film here: designresearch.works/permission-t...) Who should I speak to while I'm there? Suggestions gratefully received. Will be based on Melbourne, but can travel. PlsRT
It's not everyday that you get to speak to expert in Quantum Technologies... this time next week, I will be!
Anyone can sign up, so, if you fancy it... then please do! 💫✨
We have two fully-funded (fees and stipend) PhD positions being advertised over here at Imagination.
Themes include sustainability and regenerative systems, robotics and AI, biomaterials, digital worlds and world-building.
Is this you? Say hi!
imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/funde...
It was a treat and a delight to have a chance to try out Shadowplay (see here for the history: designresearch.works/tags/?tag=sh... up until now) in its *first ever* live gig format with wldrf.nl tonight at @thingscon.org.
I’m sure others got much better footage, but here’s a little clip
Get your heat suits out 🔥
Here is a preprint of "From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft" - reflecting the last year of prompt hacking for the Shadowplay project (see designresearch.works/tags/?tag=sh...) and its related Cardshark project. Get it here: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... It will be presented here: tei.acm.org/2025/
Hello @mlucel.bsky.social ! 🤖
Here is a link to a directory of 'starter packs', these are packs of people you can follow in a single click to build your network. There's lots of HCI, AI, and Robot centric groups you might enjoy, e.g., blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Thanks Satnam! Hope you're well. I did mean to look you up, was not-too-far away in San Francisco recently.. but, ran out of time riding around in Waymos. Next time!
@kris.art thanks for the great starter packs! Have been doing some (I think!) interesting stuff with real-time stable diffusion in various exhibition and performance contexts.. a couple of papers coming out about it soon. Wonder if it'd be interest to you? see designresearch.works/blog/shadowp...
@satnam6502.bsky.social Sam's brother Joe here... I dunno if I qualify as a computing person (does HCI count?!) but if so add me to your pack. Trying to make friends on bsky. Doing lots of playing with physical/realtime interfaces to stable diffusion at the moment: vimeo.com/1029418459
Dear UKRI... about that rule
I prefer the coke branding ;)
Photo of a wine bottle that says “ai curated, human crafted”
Back of a wine bottle showing amount of different grapes in the blend
Has anyone “tasted the future” ? (the tag line for this brand of “ai curated” wine)
… I don’t want to prejudge, but I have. Struggling to imagine what problem this is solving, apart from possibly how to flog this particular blend of wine for a couple of quid more than usual.
Taste test?
Been doing quite a lot of this recently: vimeo.com/1029418459
Got various collaborations with artists, universities, bands and festivals in the works— got any bright ideas… say hi!
Build on #streamdiffusion and #touchdesigner
On X the option is still there in the app, but if you use the opt out switch in the app almost sarcastically slides it back on again.
Children stand in front of a projection screen which is mirroring them with an illustrated rocket and person generated by AI in realtime
Loving the AI shadowplay that @joegalen.bsky.social and Roger have created!
NIGHT SCIENCE... you should know what it is. See Chapter 6 of Permission to Muck About: vimeo.com/892308873
Currently at #ACMDIS2024 ... where this work was
recently presented (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...) which.. coincidentally appears in the second half of chapter 5, which features an amazing snapshot of Design Research projects captured from 2021-2022 - vimeo.com/904212581?sh...
Chapter 5 of Permission to Muck About is split into two parts... this is the first of them and includes reflections from people involved in running the Research through Design conference. Side question - how are we going to bring RtD back to life? vimeo.com/874804494?sh...
"The way you make an omelette reveals your character" - Anthony Bordain
The second chapter of our film is concerned with 'Making and Eggs'.
Design Research *always* relates to some kind of tacit knowledge and that knowledge is acquired through practice.
vimeo.com/867163880
And here's the second behind the scenes clip, that tells the tale of what happens when some design researchers try to make a film during a lockdown... spoiler alert, what happens is more design research :) vimeo.com/884440125?sh...
(but seriously, the box we made was cool!)
Throughout the film we have little 'behind the scenes' snippets. While Dave (the filmmaker) isn't usually 'in' the film as such, in these parts we actually Dave's personal perspectives in his voice - they're super intimate. vimeo.com/884439689?sh...
Introducing CHAPTER 1 of Permission to Muck About!!!!! vimeo.com/867161637
Super super proud of this and excited to see how it’ll help empower #designresearch
The product of over 3 years hard work and a monumental effort from Dave Green (dpgreen.co.uk)
