Steve Benford (University of Nottingham)
Drawing on diverse examples such as the Carolan Guitar (www.carolanguitar.com) and augmented wargaming miniatures (www.mixedrealitystorytelling.net), I will explore how the Internet of Things can enable everyday objects to gather and tell stories as they pass among different custodians. I will consider how such stories may enhance the utility, provenance, personal meaning and emotional experience of objects and relate these to ideas of hybrid artefacts, physical & digital appropriation, and layered personalisation.
Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborator Computing at the University of Nottingham where he is exploring interactive technologies for culture and creativity. He is currently Director of the Horizon: My Life in Data Centre for Doctoral Training. He has previously been an EPSRC Dream Fellow, a Visiting Professor at the BBC and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research. His publications include many papers at ACM CHI (4 Best Paper awards) and CSCW, in ACM transactions on CHI, multiple articles Communications of the ACM, a full technical paper at SIGGRAPH, and papers in music and arts venues. He was elected to the CHI Academy in 2013, was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica (premiere international award for interactive art) in 2003 and has received four BAFTA nominations.