The Magic Machine Workshops

Andersen, Kristina; Wakkary, Ron

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300342

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“…Each workshop lasted around 2 hours and was conducted in a group setting, with 2 to 5 participants at the time. The workshops followed a research through design methodology [75], particularly inspired by Andersen's Magic Machines [5,11] which facilitates the expression of personal experiences through an embodied process of making. Magic Machines have been particularly used to explore abstract concepts with experts, often external e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Magic Machines have been particularly used to explore abstract concepts with experts, often external e.g. creating novel sounds with musicians, designing innovative spatial interventions to contribute to vocational education with architects [6]. The aim of the workshops was to explore bodily sensations during meditation as internal rather than external concepts by reflecting on the qualities of the materials that we provided for them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Drawing from Andersen's Magic Machines methodology [5,11], participants were asked to individually build a magic machine: "magic, in this context, refers to the desired, notyet-understood ability of future technology, and machine to its embodiment and physical interface to the human user" [p35, 2]. In particular, they were asked to create a physical artefact with imaginary functionalities that addresses their initial reflection on their evolving physical sensations during meditation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At the beginning of each workshop, we asked participants to reflect and draw on a blank card their "bodily sensations during meditation, paying careful attention to the difference between when they are being mindful and when their mind wanders". The goal of this task was to provide an inviting introduction to the design space and set the workshop scene, which acts as a prompt in Magic Machine workshops [5,11].…”

Section: Part 1 Introducing the Design Spacementioning

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“…It takes its origin in design and the desire of designers to broaden, what we may consider knowledge in research [7]. Over the last handful of years, a series of workshops have been taking place at CHI and DIS, with the explicit aim to refocus this area of research, aiming to become increasingly specific about how we can make use of the construction of things, to help us think about the world in which they may potentially exist [3].…”

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Research through Design (or Tokens, Trinkets and other Transitional Things)

Andersen

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Creative Toolkits for TIPS

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2020

Computer Security

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We present a survey of toolkits employed in research workshop approaches within TIPS (Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security) domains. Our survey was developed within wider design research to develop prototypes that support people in evaluating whether to trust that an online actor's identity is not recently faked, and that a service they are registering personal information with is legitimate; and a subsequent project involving a tool that invites people to reflect on the cumulative risks of sharing apparently harmless personal information online. The radically multidisciplinary nature of both these TIPS projects has determined that we create a research space to promote exchange to, as design researchers, better understand the 'opaque' immediate and longer term implications of our proposed services and invite cross-disciplinary discussion towards interdisciplinary understandings. This paper is intended as an at-a-glance resource, or indeed toolkit, for researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working on TIPS research to inform on various different material engagements, with research stakeholders, through creative workshop approaches. Our survey focused on the literature from Design (especially Participatory Design and Codesign), Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and cybersecurity. It comprises 27 papers or toolkit examples organised across: review papers; example toolkits; case studies reporting relevant toolkit use; applied toolkits for learning/knowledge exchange; research toolkits focused on demonstrating a methodological-conceptual approach (some problematising emergent or near-future technologies); and two papers that straddled the latter two categories, focusing on future practical application. We begin with an overview of our rationale and method before presenting each group of texts in a table alongside a summary discussion. We go on to discuss the various material components, affordances and terminology of the toolkits along with core concerns often left out of the reporting of research; before going on to recognise toolkits not so much as things that diagnose and fix things, but as a loose collection of readily available material and wider resources, used in particular participatory approaches, which together help account for techno-relational differences and contingencies in TIPS-related fields.

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The Magic Machine Workshops

Cited by 60 publications

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Body Matters

Body Matters

Research through Design (or Tokens, Trinkets and other Transitional Things)

Creative Toolkits for TIPS

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