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The secret life of digital images revealed
29 June 2009
Michael Smyth and Ingi Helgason

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Design of future technologies can be informed by exploration of rituals, behaviours and habits of everyday life through personal photographs.

Authors

Michael Smyth
Centre for Interaction Design School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/?michael/home.html

Michael Smyth is a reader. He has worked in the fields of human-computer interaction and interaction design since 1987, and has published over 50 academic papers. In addition, he has had interactive installations exhibited at both UK and international conferences, and at arts and design festivals. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book, Digital Blur: Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art.

Ingi Helgason
Centre for Interaction Design School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University

Ingi Helgason is a researcher and designer currently working on Peach, a European Union-funded project to increase public understanding of presence research. She is studying for a PhD on the subject of new-media art as a resource for interaction design, and has a background in visual design.

References

D. Massey, For Space, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2005.

S. Sontag, On Photography, Penguin Books, UK, 1979.

DOI: 10.2417/2200906.1721