The Dial: Exploring Computational Strangeness

• This paper describes the process of a computational ideaemerging from a process of user engagement: algorithmicrecommendations as artistic obstructions in creativework. Through a collaboration between HCI and Music InformationRetrieval, we conducted open-ended interviewswith professional makers of Electronic Dance Music. Wedescribe how the idea emerged from this process, and considerhow algorithmic recommendation systems could bere-considered as tools for artistic inspiration. We proposethe concept of a “Strangeness Dial,” which allows the gradualadjustment of the degree of desired otherness, which istested through the use of a non-functional prop and a seriesof interviews.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Participatory; recommendation; defamiliarisation; interviews; creativity

Human-computer Interaction

Människa-datorinteraktion

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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