Dream Fellowship: Inspiration, Immersion and Impact with the Creative Industries

计算机已经从工作场所生产力的工具演变为创造力、文化、娱乐和社交的基本推动者。它们的形式也变得多样化，摆脱了桌面，成为移动、可穿戴、嵌入式和身临其境的产品。作为回应，研究人员提出了未来我们将如何与计算机互动的替代愿景，一方面沉浸在游戏和在线社交环境的梦幻虚拟世界中，另一方面通过无处不在的计算来增强我们的日常活动。虽然这些愿景经常被表述为相互竞争--无所不在的计算被提出为虚拟现实的对立面--但我有不同的观点。在麻省理工学院出版社即将出版的一本书中，我主张从更全面的角度看待用户体验，认为它跨越了多个真实和虚拟的空间、时间尺度和不同形式的界面，但又保持了整体的一致性。参观画廊、博物馆或主题公园、度假或商务旅行、买房子或维持多年友谊等经历，需要被设计为相互交织的连续线索或轨迹--以及与其他人的线索或轨迹。然而，设计这些未来的用户体验也需要从根本上改变我们的基本方法，将其扩展到包括激进的创新方法，这些方法吸收了艺术以及科学、工程和社会科学的观点。从施乐帕洛阿尔托研究中心开创性的驻留计划开始，许多实验室和公司都转向艺术家的技能和创造力来催化研究和设计。在过去的十年里，我发展了一种独特的方式来与行为艺术家合作，他们在设计和提供现场体验方面带来了特殊的专业知识。我的方法是艺术家主导的，因为它让艺术家对体验的形式进行创造性的控制，而实践主导，因为它围绕着反复创造和研究环游全球的体验。虽然这种方法已经与获奖的科学论文一起交付了具有里程碑意义的艺术作品，并在研究界引起了广泛关注，但到目前为止，它只应用于相对狭窄的体验类型。现在的挑战是将它应用于整个创意行业的工业规模，并融入主流，以便改变计算行业设计用户体验的方法。我的研究员将通过促进个人转型来正面应对这一挑战，我将沉浸在关键的行业合作伙伴中，以拓宽我的经验和视角。成果将是：-阐明未来十年创意计算的总体研究议程--为艺术家奠定基础--以及以实践为导向的创意方法，这是实现这一目标所必需的--通过深入了解行业需求来确保这项研究的影响--与关键的行业合作伙伴建立密切的关系，以支持未来的合作

Computers have evolved from being tools for workplace productivity to being fundamental enablers of creativity, culture, entertainment and sociability. They have also diversified in form, breaking away from the desktop to become mobile, wearable, embedded and immersive. In response, researchers have proposed alternative visions of how we will interact with computers in the future from immersing ourselves in the fantastic virtual worlds of games and online social environments on the one hand, to enhancing our everyday activities through ubiquitous computing on the other. While these visions have often been articulated as competing with one another - ubiquitous computing was proposed as the antithesis of virtual reality - I take a different view. In a forthcoming book to be published by MIT Press, I argue for a more holistic view of the user experience as something that extends over multiple real and virtual spaces, timescales and diverse forms of interface, and yet maintains an overall coherence. Experiences such as visiting a gallery, museum or theme-park, taking a holiday or business trip, buying a house, or maintaining a friendship over many years, need to be designed as continuous threads - or trajectories - that interweave with one another and with those of other people. Designing these future user experiences, however, also requires a fundamental transformation in our underlying methods, extending them to encompass radical new approaches to creativity that draw on perspectives from the arts alongside those from science, engineering and the social sciences.From Xerox PARC's pioneering residency scheme onwards, many laboratories and companies have turned to the skills and creativity of artists to catalyse research and design. Over the past decade, I have evolved a distinctive approach to working with performance artists who bring a particular expertise in the design and delivery of live experiences. My approach is artist-led, in that it gives artists creative control over the form of the experience, and practice-led, in that it revolves around the iterative creation and study of experiences that tour the globe. While this approach has already delivered landmark artworks alongside award-winning scientific papers and attracted widespread attention in the research community, it has so far only been applied to a relatively narrow genre of experiences. The challenge now is to apply it on an industrial scale across the creative industries and into the mainstream beyond in order to transform the computing industry's approach to designing user experiences.My fellowship will tackle this challenge head on by facilitating a personal transformation in which I will immerse myself within key industry partners in order to broaden my experience and perspective. The outcomes will be to:- Articulate an overarching research agenda for creative computing over the next ten years - Establish the foundations of the artist- and practice- led creative methods that are required to deliver this on an industrial scale- Ensure the impact of this research by grounding it in a deep appreciation of industry needs- Establish close relationships with key industry partners to underpin future collaborations