Designing Mixed Reality Experiences and Pedagogies on the NYC High Line (2018)
Presentation / Conference
O’Keefe, B., & Flint, T. (2018, November). Designing Mixed Reality Experiences and Pedagogies on the NYC High Line. Paper presented at FACT2 Symposium: Virtual Immersive Pedagogy

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Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children (2018)
Journal Article
Flint, T., Hall, L., Stewart, F., & Hagan, D. (2018). Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children. Digital Creativity, 29(2/3), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1511601

This paper discusses a virtual reality experience for a contemporary sculpture park, Jupiter Artland, developed in Minecraft targeting 9-11-year-old children. Issues of fidelity, realism and authenticity are considered, examining the use of Minecraft... Read More about Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children.

Mixing and re-purposing realities. (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Flint, T., Hall, L., & Stewart, F. (2018). Mixing and re-purposing realities. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.39

This paper discusses a mixed reality that intertwines two parallel spaces, a real and a virtual contemporary sculpture park. With the goal to create a game that motivated children to explore the park and engage with the artworks, we engaged with chil... Read More about Mixing and re-purposing realities..

Expanding the Child Visitor Experience – mixing realities in a contemporary sculpture park (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hall, L., Flint, T., & Mitsche, N. (2018, May). Expanding the Child Visitor Experience – mixing realities in a contemporary sculpture park. Paper presented at 2nd International Research Symposium in Tourism Hospitality & Events

This research considers how the visitor experience could be enhanced through intertwining and blending the real and virtual, creating a new mixed reality that extended and added to the destination. We discuss work undertaken with Jupiter Artland, a c... Read More about Expanding the Child Visitor Experience – mixing realities in a contemporary sculpture park.

Eidolon 360 – a VR experience (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018, March). Eidolon 360 – a VR experience. Presented at Tangible Embedded Interaction 2018. TEI Arts

Art piece displayed at the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) exhibition. https://tei.acm.org/2018/

Aide Memoire (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Flint, T., & Dylan, T. H. (2018). Aide Memoire. In L. Hall, T. Flint, S. O'Hara, & P. Turner (Eds.), Proceedings of BHCI 2017. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.69

The Aide Memoire is a fully realised product constructed from discarded testing equipment. Born out of a series of creative sessions exploring the broad theme of interactivity the product was developed in partnership between Tom Flint and Tommy Dylan... Read More about Aide Memoire.

Eidolon360 – A VR Experience (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018). Eidolon360 – A VR Experience. In L. Hall, T. Flint, S. O'Hara, & P. Turner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.63

Eidolon360 is a virtual reality artwork and experience that is interacted with through VR headsets. The viewer, reclining on a bed within the exhibition space, experiences a 360 film, shot within a medical simulation centre, that mimics clinical hosp... Read More about Eidolon360 – A VR Experience.

“This is amazing, I’m in two worlds!” A multiple reality game designed with children for children. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Flint, T. (2017, September). “This is amazing, I’m in two worlds!” A multiple reality game designed with children for children. Paper presented at IPA 2017

Appropriating Affordances. Three Practice Based Explorations (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Flint, T. (2017). Appropriating Affordances. Three Practice Based Explorations. In L. Hall, T. Flint, S. O'Hara, & P. Turner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.36

Affordance and Appropriation are related. An effective way of examining these phenomena is through practice. This paper discusses practice based exploration of affordance in the design of physical interfaces. This study follows a framework developed... Read More about Appropriating Affordances. Three Practice Based Explorations.

Designing for mixed reality with children (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Flint, T. (2017, May). Designing for mixed reality with children. Paper presented at Researching with and for children: Place, pedagogy and play

Appropriating interaction (2016)
Thesis
Flint, T. E. Appropriating interaction. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453421

This thesis is concerned with the fact that people routinely appropriate interactive technology. Much of the work in this project was conducted at The Public, an interactive art gallery in West Bromwich. Examples of appropriation that are presented r... Read More about Appropriating interaction.

The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Flint, T., Turner, P., & Banach, A. (2016). The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park. In J. C. Read, & P. Stenton (Eds.), IDC '16 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (680-683). https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2938613

This is a demonstration of a Minecraft facsimile of Jupiter Artland, a sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh. With the cooperation of primary school children we developed a mixed reality game employing Minecraft. Our aim is to investigate atta... Read More about The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park.

Fiction for design: appropriating Hollywood techniques for design fictions (2016)
Book Chapter
Flint, T. (2016). Fiction for design: appropriating Hollywood techniques for design fictions. In P. Turner, & T. Harviainen (Eds.), Digital Make-Believe (49-66). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29553-4_4

There is evidence that narratives told in a structured manner are more likely to be convincing to an audience. Design Fictions are an increasingly popular medium in HCI. It is important that we make our stories believable so that they can be more rea... Read More about Fiction for design: appropriating Hollywood techniques for design fictions.

Looking at technology with Parkour eyes. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Flint, T., & Turner, P. (2014, June). Looking at technology with Parkour eyes. Paper presented at Interaction Design and Children

This workshop paper discusses the theme of repurposing and its relationship to appropriation. By centering on the social, cultural aspect of appropriation we link it to affordance through structuration theory. We argue that children view technology w... Read More about Looking at technology with Parkour eyes..

Enlightened trial and error (2012)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Flint, T. (2012). Enlightened trial and error. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 13/14, 64-83

Human-computer interaction as a rationalistic, engineering discipline has been taught successfully for more than 25 years. The established narrative is one of designing usable systems for users, some of whom have been described as “naïve”, safely ins... Read More about Enlightened trial and error.