Taming the situationist beast

  • Authors:
  • Lucian Leahu;Jennifer Thom-Santelli;Claudia Pederson;Phoebe Sengers

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The interplay between arts and HCI has become increasingly commonplace in the past years, offering new opportunities for approaching interaction, but also raising challenges in integrating methods and insights from across a great disciplinary divide. In this paper, we examine the ways Situationist art practice has been used as an inspiration for HCI design. We argue that methods from Situationist art practice have often been picked up without regard for their underlying sensibility: reflection and improvisation in an activist socio-political context. We describe an experiment in incorporating Situationist sensibility in design and use it to elucidate the challenges that face HCI in truly integrating the arts.