The tools designers use: what do they reveal about design thinking?
Conference Proceeding
Smyth, M. (1997)
The tools designers use: what do they reveal about design thinking?. In J. S. Smith, & E. W. L. Norman (Eds.), IDATER 98 : International Conference on Design and Technology Educational Research and Curriculum Development, 146-153
Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation
Journal Article
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2017)
Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S3966-S3974. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352899
The diffusion and democratisation of computing technologies and physical prototyping systems has supported the rise of Do-It-Yourself culture. In the context of design innovat...
Discourse, speculation and mltidisciplinarity: designing urban futures.
Journal Article
Helgason, I., Smyth, M., Rosenbak, S., & Mitrovic, I. (2015)
Discourse, speculation and mltidisciplinarity: designing urban futures. Nordic design research conference, 1-10
This paper presents a design case study of a summer school that brought together a multi-disciplinary group of early-career professionals to explore ideas relating to new tech...
The case for building familiarity into wearables design.
Presentation / Conference
Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2003, October)
The case for building familiarity into wearables design. Paper presented at Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'03
This paper examines the issues connected with the development of wearable devices in terms of affective design, that is, as pleasurable products. Wearables, particularly in th...
Designing Interactions: Repositioning Design in HCI
Presentation / Conference
Varey, A., Smyth, M. & Cairncross, S. (2006, March)
Designing Interactions: Repositioning Design in HCI. Paper presented at HCIEd 2006 Inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI, Limerick, Ireland
This paper describes three case studies which discuss different ways in which HCI and multimedia students in the School of Computing at Napier University are exposed to design...
Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?
Journal Article
Smyth, M. (2022)
Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?. DOC - Design and Society, 1(1),
The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided...
Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?
Working Paper
Smyth, M. Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?)
Smyth, M. Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?
The fusion of architecture and cultures that comprised the cityscape of Blade Runner (1982) was a key part in how the narrative humanised the vision of the future, it provided...
Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space
Journal Article
Smyth, M., Trigueiros, P., Helgason, I., Coelho, A., Gallacher, S., Burrows, A., …Penha, R. (2015)
Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 25, 813-816
Preface to the focus section: Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space
Cities are exciting and people continue to be drawn to urban areas beca...
Informing the design of the future urban landscape.
Conference Proceeding
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2010)
Informing the design of the future urban landscape. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 438-440. doi:10.1145/1858171.1858259
The urban spaces of the future will be saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and...
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts
Journal Article
Coleman, S., Terras, M., Thornton, P., Smyth, M., Schafer, B., Drost, S., …Speed, C. (2021)
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts. Big Data and Society, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data a...