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SUMMARY:Failing with Style: Why and How we Should Encourage Humans to Fail
  with Highly Capable Systems - Professor Steve Benford\, Mixed Reality Lab
 oratory\, School of Computer Science\, The University of Nottingham
DTSTART:20181114T161500Z
DTEND:20181114T170000Z
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CONTACT:jo de bono
DESCRIPTION:Failure is a common artefact of challenging experiences\, a fa
 ct of life for interactive systems but also a resource for aesthetic and i
 mprovisational performance. I will discuss an example of how three profess
 ional pianists performed an interactive piano composition that included pl
 aying hidden computational codes within the music so as to control their p
 ath through the piece and trigger system actions. I will reveal how their 
 apparent failures to play the codes (at least when seen from the system’
 s point of view) occurred for diverse reasons including mistakes in their 
 playing\, limitations of the system\, but also deliberate failures as a wa
 y of controlling the system\, and how these failures provoked aesthetic an
 d improvised responses from the performers. I will argue that creative int
 erfaces should be designed to enable aesthetic failures and introduce a ta
 xonomy that compares human approaches to failure with approaches to capabl
 e systems\, revealing new creative design strategies of gaming\, taming\, 
 riding and assimilating with the system.  I’ll try and persuade you that
  these strategies might also be applied to less obviously creative interfa
 ces\, from conversational interfaces to autonomous vehicles.\n\nSteve is P
 rofessor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the
  University of Nottingham where he directs the Horizon ‘My Life in Data
 ’ Centre or Doctoral Training. He previously held an EPSRC Dream Fellows
 hip\, has been a Visiting Professor at the BBC and was elected to the CHI 
 Academy in 2012.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory
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