Title: Re: thinking and designing a digital sketchbook
Abstract: AbstractWhy are digital tools not replacing traditional sketchbooks? Described here is a research-led teaching project to explore the fundamentals of sketchbook use. An analysis of real world sketchbooks, artists' statements and semi-structured interviews is presented that reveals the complex of interrelated activities that sketchbooks support. Csikszentmihalyi's creative systems model is used to frame this analysis, highlighting the role of sketchbooks as a support tool across the creative system. Initial prototypes of interface components for an iPad app are explored and discussed as part of a student project. Insights are provided into how to re-design digital sketchbooks in order to support activities across the creative system in a holistic way.Keywords: creativitysketchbooksinterfacessystems model AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank the following students wo took part in this research project: Louisa Barrett; Laura Cammidge; Stuart Clift; Finlay Craig; J. J. Cranston; Mark Cruickshank; Clare Doogan; Christopher Dow; Stephen Dwyer; Steven Fullerton; Fiona Harkins; Shaun Jeffries; Mira Kirvesmaki; Cassie Morrison; Greg Scott; Katie Smith; Catriona Suiter; Andrew Swindail; Roderick Tan; and Virginia Vila Palacin. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDr Shaleph J. O'Neill is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the University of Dundee who has worked on a number of interaction design projects that explore user sense-making (usability) processes and creative activities (BENOGO, EU Presence Initiative, IST-2001-39184, Leonardo: Culture Creativity and Interaction Design, EPSRC GR/T21042/01). His expertise lies in the area of semiotics and user interface design. He is author of Interactive Media: The Semiotics of Embodied Interaction (Springer, 2008) and has recently completed leading an EPSRC-funded project to look into ways of improving creative technologies for creative practitioners ('Making Sense of Creative Interactions', EPSRC F053029/1). His research focus is to better understand the relationship between user experience and the meanings embedded in multiple and distributed media interfaces of various sorts from traditional to interactive media.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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