Human Interactive | Data as Design Tool
To coincide with the Creative Machine exhibition Goldsmiths is hosting a major one day conference exploring the theme of human/machine interaction with leading industry and aca-demic speakers across computer games, robotics, VR, neuro-science, psychology, bioinformatics and computer art."
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RebeccaFiebrink
26th October 2014 In Program

Data as Design Tool

Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink – Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

 

Typically, computer science treats “data” as measurements of the world that can be modeled, aiding in prediction or understanding of some phenomenon. My work instead examines the use of data as a human interface—a way for people to communicate embodied knowledge, goals, and ideas to a computer. By adapting data mining and modeling techniques from other computing domains, we can turn data into a highly interactive, expressive design tool that allows people to build and customize new technologies more quickly and easily and to explore, discover, and play.

In this talk I will discuss some of my work enabling people to use data as a design tool and I will highlight some of the exciting challenges at the intersection of human-computer interaction, machine learning and creative practice.