Speaker Series: Dr. Andruid Kerne – University of Illinois at Chicago
Speaker Series
March 10, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location
1535A SSB, and Zoom
Address
1240 West Harrison, Suite 1535, Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free; RSVP Required
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Speaker: Dr. Andruid Kerne – Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: How to Investigate Creativity and Participation
Abstract: Creativity and participation are vital, ineffable aspects of human experience. Creativity is essential to personal well-being and national innovation. Participation is essential to well-being, learning, and democracy. At the same time, performing scientific investigation of new technologies that support human experiences of creativity and participation is challenging, because they are nonlinear processes, characterized neither by singular correct answers nor by a one and only best practice. This complicates the role of data in establishing evidence and verifying findings. We need to understand what data methodologies enable what types of rigorous investigation of the effects of new technologies on human beings.
We present a series of studies exploring how new technologies impact creativity and participation, using data methodologies as an epistemological lens. The technologies span social media, spatial representations of information collections, algorithm-in-the-loop, embodied interaction, and games. Situated contexts of use span entertainment, crisis response, and education, involving engineering, architecture, and media arts. In formulating an epistemology of data, we contribute findings of the need for visual and textual qualitative data methodologies, in addition to quantitative, for studying the impacts of new technologies on ineffable aspects of human experience
Please note this is a hybrid event, both in-person and via Zoom.
Date posted
Dec 21, 2022
Date updated
Dec 21, 2022