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Digital and data literacy (2024)
Book Chapter
Osborne, N., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Michielin, L., Panneels, I., Parkinson, C., …Warren, K. (2024). Digital and data literacy. In Data Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries (71-100). London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810033658

In this chapter we explore models for training and upskilling people in the creative industries in data, technology and entrepreneurial skills, situating this in the wider skills and training context. We will particularly look at the challenges of de... Read More about Digital and data literacy.

Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures (2023)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2023). Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures. In Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change (77-88). Croatian Architects’ Association

So why is it so difficult to imagine futures? Not the futures set in galaxies far far away, but the ones connected to the present that lie tantalisingly just beyond the horizon. Futures still tethered to variants of today’s infrastructure. This essay... Read More about Future Tense - The Challenge of Imagining Alternative Futures.

Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History (2021)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Auger, J., & Helgason, I. (2021). Echoes of Futures Past - Speculations and Fictions from History. In I. Mitrović, J. Auger, J. Hanna, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Beyond Speculative Design: Past-Present-Future (24-67). SpeculativeEDU, Arts Academy,

Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. (2015)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Benyon, D., McCall, R., O’Neill, S., & Carroll, F. (2015). Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. In M. Lombard, F. Biocca, J. Freeman, W. IJsselsteijn, & R. J. Schaevitz (Eds

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20 m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th Framework Programme, “Presence”. The aim of the pr... Read More about Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments..

A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design. (2015)
Book Chapter
Zaffiro, G., Bracuto, M., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015). A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design. In Cpmmunications in Computer and Information Science: HCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts (587-591). Springer. https://doi.org/

Urban Interaction Design draws upon knowledge and approaches from a range of disciplines involved in the design of urban spaces, connecting them and establishing their interactions as a principle. It is also rooted in the wider field of interaction d... Read More about A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design..

Designing at a distance via real-time designer-to-designer interaction. (1995)
Book Chapter
Scrivener, S. A. R., Harris, D., Clark, S., Rockoff, T., & Smyth, M. (1995). Designing at a distance via real-time designer-to-designer interaction. In S. Greenberg, S. Hayne, & R. Rada (Eds.), Groupware for Real-Time Drawing - A Designers Guide (5-23). M

This paper describes an experiment in which teams of two designers used a shared computer ‘sketchpad’ to generate design concepts for products while geographically separated by a distance of over 16 300km. The aim of the large separation, which inclu... Read More about Designing at a distance via real-time designer-to-designer interaction..

Towards a cooperative software agent. (1994)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (1994). Towards a cooperative software agent. In J. H. Connolly, & E. A. Edmonds (Eds.), The Kluwer International Series on Computer Supported Cooperative Work; Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (1-11). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/9

This chapter introduces the concept of software agents and focuses on their impact at the level of the user interface, particularly the relationship between the level of task action undertaken by agents and their corresponding representation to the u... Read More about Towards a cooperative software agent..