Development of creative, digital human-computer interfaces (HCI): radical new flexible design interfaces for artists and industry

Sam将研究以从业者为中心的数字接口，用于3D物理制造工作流程中的数据捕获和数据操作。本研究的背景与2D软件工具有关，这些软件工具与计算机一起发展，创造性从业者的用户体验处于这些软件包界面设计的最前沿。3D建模系统（CAD）和数字制造工具越来越多地被艺术从业者使用，既可以作为在原型设计、测试、分析和精炼产品和工艺的循环过程中制作多个和更重要的方法。除了使用数字工具进行原型设计和制作外，从业人员还捕获数字信息，将其用作创意实践中的输入。人类的经验逐渐生活在一个淹没在信息技术的环境中。新兴的物联网（IoT）将加速这一趋势。这项博士研究的目的是解决创造性从业者的需求，以及他们如何能够接口，理解数据丰富的环境，并为从专家到非专家的一系列受众展示复杂的数据方式。使艺术家能够做到这一点的数字界面应该以用户为中心，以实践为中心。学生将开发新的以实践为中心的激进界面，用于数据捕获和数据处理，用于3D制造。如果创作实践中的原始材料是数据，输出是数字，艺术家如何操纵这些原始数据来创作艺术品？艺术家从周围环境中收集数据时需要哪些信息？艺术家如何与数据丰富的环境进行交互？越来越多的有创造力的从业者正在使用Processing、Java等语言和Grasshopper等接口，用算法操纵捕获的数据。这种数据的迭代使用反映了数字制造中原型阶段使用的迭代方法。然而，如果不仔细考虑如何读取、解释和表达数据，数据本身可能毫无意义。学生将设计和原型工具，使从业者能够用数据表达有意义的东西。潜在的结果和对新知识的贡献将导致一个以用户为中心的集成工具包，供艺术家与传感器丰富的环境进行交互，包括：数据收集工具，以用户为中心的界面（HCI），用于算法操作数据。

Sam will research practitioner-centred, digital interfaces for data capture and data manipulation within a workflow for 3D physical fabrication.The context of this study relates to 2D software tools that have evolved alongside computers and the user experience of creative practitioners that is at the forefront of interface design for these software packages. 3D modelling systems (CAD) and digital fabrication tools are increasingly being used by artistic practitioners, both as a means of making multiples and more significantly in a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analysing, and refining products and processes. As well as using digital tools for prototyping and production, practitioners are capturing digital information to use as inputs within creative practice. The human experience is progressively lived in an environment submerged in information technology. This will be accelerated by the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). The aim of this doctoral study is to address the requirements for creative practitioners and how they can interface, understand a data-rich environment and demonstrate complex data way for a range of audiences, from experts to non-experts. The digital interfaces that enable artists to do this, should be user-centred and practice-centred. The student will develop new practice-centred, radical interfaces for both data capture and data manipulation for use in 3D fabrication. If the source material in creative practice is data and the output is digital, how do artists manipulate this raw data to create artworks? What information do artists require when collecting data from their surroundings? How can the artist interact with a data rich environment?Increasingly, creative practitioners are manipulating captured data with algorithms, using languages like Processing, Java, and interfaces such as Grasshopper. This iterative use of data mirrors the iterative methodology used in the prototyping phase within digital fabrication. However, the data alone may be meaningless without careful consideration as to how it is read, interpreted and expressed. The student will design and prototype tools enabling practitioners to express something meaningful with data. The potential outcomes and contribution to new knowledge will lead to a user-centred, integrated toolkit for artists to interact with the sensor rich environment, comprising: instruments for data gathering, a user-centred, interface (HCI) with which to manipulate data algorithmically.