Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2023)
Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures. In Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change (77-88). Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian Architects’ Association
So why is it so difficult to imagine futures? Not the futures set in galaxies far far away, but the ones connected to the present that lie tantalisingly just beyond the horizo...
Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020
Book Chapter
Elsden, C., Yu, D., Piccio, B., Helgason, I., & Terras, M. (2021)
Recorded performance as digital content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020. In L. Bissell, & L. Weir (Eds.), Performance in a Pandemic. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165644
Within days of performance venues being forced to close their doors in 2020, the National Theatre began broadcasting high-quality recordings of the best of London’s West End. ...
Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Auger, J., & Helgason, I. (2021)
Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History. In I. Mitrović, J. Auger, J. Hanna, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Beyond Speculative Design: Past-Present-Future (24-67). Split, Croatia: SpeculativeEDU, Arts Academy, University of Split
Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera
Book Chapter
Cheng, L., & Leung, B. (2020)
Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera. In W. W. Ma, K. Tong, & W. Bo Anna Tso (Eds.), Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impacts (213-226). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8167-0_13
Recent advancements in communication and computer technology have made available and affordable the immersive technology necessary for broader applications beyond industrial u...
An assessment of learning Cantonese opera movement in Hong Kong
Book Chapter
Leung, B., Mok, M. M. C., Kuo, B., Liu, Z., Lam, S. M., Ng, C. W., …Choi, T. W. (2018)
An assessment of learning Cantonese opera movement in Hong Kong. In K. J. Kennedy, & J. Chi-Kin Lee (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia (220-233). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694382-20
This chapter discusses the transition of teaching and learning of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong from traditional master-apprentice approach to institutionalised group teaching,...
User experience (UX) design for medical personnel and patients
Book Chapter
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2015)
User experience (UX) design for medical personnel and patients. In S. Fricker, C. Thuemmler, & A. Gavras (Eds.), Requirements Engineering for Digital Health and Care (117-131). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5_6
UX design is concerned with all the issues that go into providing an engaging and enjoyable experience for people in both the short and longer term. This is more than mere fun...
IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Erkoyuncu, J. A. (2013)
IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches. In Y. Shimomura, & K. Kimita (Eds.), The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability (411-416). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32847-3_69
Although the merits of Industrial product-service systems (IPS2) have been widely reported in the literature, the methodologies currently used to design IPS2 are not yet matur...
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
Domains Models for User Interface Design
Book Chapter
Benyon, D. (1996)
Domains Models for User Interface Design. In D. Benyon, & P. Palanque (Eds.), Critical Issues in User Interface Systems Engineering, 3-19. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1001-9_1
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with developing computer-based systems which help people undertake their work or other activities and which demonstrate a high de...
A Functional Model of Interacting Systems: A Semiotic Approach
Book Chapter
Benyon, D. (1994)
A Functional Model of Interacting Systems: A Semiotic Approach. In J. Connolly, & E. Edmonds (Eds.), CSCW and Artificial Intelligence; Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 105-125. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2035-3_8
Recent developments in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) share a common problem: commu...