Towards a new disciplinary framework for contemporary design practice.
Journal Article
Dykes, T. H., Rodgers, P. A., Dykes, T., Rodgers, P., & Smyth, M. (2009)
Towards a new disciplinary framework for contemporary design practice. CoDesign, 5(2), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710880902910417
This paper argues for a consistent and new design-specific disciplinary framework that will provide a better understanding of emergent design practice. Design today is charact...
Presence and consciousness.
Book
Turner, P. (2008)
Presence and consciousness. In D. Benyon, M. Smyth, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Presence for everyone: a short guide to presence research, 21-24. Peach Consortium
Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images.
Digital Artefact
Smyth, M. & Helgason, I. (2008)
Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images.
Is an interactive new media art installation that explores how the sharing of images, normally hidden on mobile phones, can reveal more about people's sense of place and this ...
Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday.
Conference Proceeding
Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2007)
Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. In N. Bryan-Kinns, A. Blanford, P. Curzon, & L. Nigay (Eds.), People and computers XX Engage : proceedings of HCI 2006, 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-664-3
This short paper presents an experimental approach to the difficulty of evaluating interactive systems as artefacts for everyday life. The problem arises from the event-like n...
Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation
Conference Proceeding
Kettley, S., Smyth, M., Arvind, D. K., Greig, F., McGregor, I., & Paechter, B. (2007)
Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation. In D. Golightly, T. Rose, & B. Light (Eds.), Create 07 Creative Inventions, Innovations and Everyday Designs in HCI
ensemble - an interactive collection of networked jewellery with gesturally determined, real time sonic output
Designing for embodied interaction: experiencing artefacts with and through the body.
Book
Smyth, M. (2006)
Designing for embodied interaction: experiencing artefacts with and through the body. In D. Sutton, R. McKenzie, & S. Brind (Eds.), The State of the Real, 140-150. IB Tauris & Co Ltd
The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments.
Journal Article
McCall, R., Benyon, D., Smyth, M., O'Neill, S., McCall, R., & Carroll, F. (2006)
The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.15.6.668
This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techni...
Designing Interactions: Repositioning Design in HCI
Presentation / Conference
Varey, A., Smyth, M. & Cairncross, S. (2006, March)
Designing Interactions: Repositioning Design in HCI. Paper presented at HCIEd 2006 Inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI, Limerick, Ireland
This paper describes three case studies which discuss different ways in which HCI and multimedia students in the School of Computing at Napier University are exposed to design...
Reflecting on Design
Presentation / Conference
Varey, A. & Smyth, M. (2006, March)
Reflecting on Design. Paper presented at CONVIVIO Faculty Forum “Teaching Design for HCI”, Graz, Austria
No abstract available.
Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2005)
Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (249-260). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_17