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Designing for new photographic experiences: how the lomographic practice informed context photography

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DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1314161.1314193

Published: 22 August 2007 Publication History

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This paper reports on how we learned from an alternative practice in order to design engaging interactive technology intended for a more general user group. When investigating new types of digital photography we designed context photography, where real-time context data visually affects digital pictures as they are taken. To understand how to design for a meaningful photographic experience, we took inspiration from an amateur practice involving a particular type of analogue camera --- Lomography. This paper shows how such alternative or marginal practices can help to ground design of interactive technology in existing human interests, while at the same time leading to a novel design outcome.

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Designing for new photographic experiences: how the lomographic practice informed context photography
1. General and reference
  1. Document types
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces

August 2007

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ISBN:9781595939425

DOI:10.1145/1314161

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