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The Justice Syndicate: Using iPads to increase the intensity of participation, conduct agency and encourage flow in live interactive performance
The Justice Syndicate is an interactive performance, featuring an audience who take on the role of jurors considering a difficult case. Participants receive evidence, witness testimonies and prompts to vote and discuss the case on iPads. With this practice-as-research project we sought to explore what are the most effective means of inviting people to participate; how to widen their āhorizon of participationā; how to increase the intensity of interaction in order to increase the level of āagentive behaviourā of the participants; and how to create a sense of flow in participants. We found that an effective solution to the fear of experiencing or causing embarrassment is for the invitation to participate to come from a machine and for there to be no distinction between āaudienceā and āparticipants.ā The use of machines to stimulate interaction in the absence of live performers also proved an effective way of stimulating a high intensity of āagentive behaviourā among audience members, although it did not automatically lead to a greater feeling of agency. Applying an adapted version of Lindinger and colleaguesā (2013) codification of how to stimulate a state of flow in audience members also proved effective in creating a highly immersive experience.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media on 06/02/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14794713.2020.172291
Systems, interactions and macrotheory
A significant proportion of early HCI research was guided by one very clear vision: that the existing theory base in psychology and cognitive science could be developed to yield engineering tools for use in the interdisciplinary context of HCI design. While interface technologies and heuristic methods for behavioral evaluation have rapidly advanced in both capability and breadth of application, progress toward deeper theory has been modest, and some now believe it to be unnecessary. A case is presented for developing new forms of theory, based around generic āsystems of interactors.ā An overlapping, layered structure of macro- and microtheories could then serve an explanatory role, and could also bind together contributions from the different disciplines. Novel routes to formalizing and applying such theories provide a host of interesting and tractable problems for future basic research in HCI
The Justice Syndicate: evidence of performances
This PDF contains evidence of performances of The Justice Syndicate. The piece has been performed a total of 80 times. Performances evidenced here were at:
Battersea Arts Centre, London
National Theatre of Scotland's Citizen of Nowhere Festival, Dundee
Dublin Fringe Festival
Sheffield Doc Fest
York Mediale
Edinburgh Science Festival
The Old Market, Brighton and Hove
National Justice Museum, Nottingham
Random String Festival, Coventry
The Global Health Film Festival, Wellcome Collection, Londo
Reviews and press coverage of The Justice Syndicate
This file contains reviews and press coverage of The Justice Syndicate. Articles are from (in order):
The Irish Times (4 stars)
The Londonist (5 stars)
The Observer (double page spread feature article)
The Stage (5 stars)
The Sunday Times (feature article)
Miro Magazine (4 stars)
No More Work Horse
The Play's The Thing
Felix Online (4.5 stars
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Strategies used in the pursuit of achievability during goal setting in rehabilitation
We used conversation analysis of six audio- and video-recorded goal setting meetings that were attended by patients and their respective treating team to explore and describe the interaction of participants during interdisciplinary goal setting, and to identify the strategies used to agree goals. The health care professionals involved in the six sessions included four physiotherapists, four occupational therapists, four nurses, one speech and language therapist, and one neuropsychologist. The participants included 3 patients with multiple sclerosis, 2 patients with spinal cord lesions, and 1 patient with stroke from an inpatient neurological rehabilitation unit. Detailed analysis revealed how the treating team shaped the meetings. The most notable finding was that there was rarely a straightforward translation of patient wishes into agreed-on written goals, with the treating team leading goal modification so that goals were achievable. Despite professional dominance, patients also influenced the course of the interaction, particularly when offering resistance to goals proposed by the treating team
Self monitoring of blood glucose - a survey of Diabetes UK members with type 2 diabetes who use SMBG
Background: aim - to survey members of Diabetes UK who had Type 2 diabetes and who used self monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), to elicit their views on its usefulness in the management of their diabetes, and how they used the results. A questionnaire was developed for the Diabetes UK website. The questionnaire was posted on the Diabetes UK website until over 500 people had responded. Questions asked users to specify the benefits gained from SMBG, and how these benefits were achieved. We carried out both quantitative analysis and a thematic analysis for the open ended free-text questions.Findings: 554 participants completed the survey, of whom 289 (52.2%) were male. 20% of respondents were recently diagnosed (< 6 months). Frequency of SMBG varied, with 43% of participants testing between once and four times a day and 22% testing less than once a month or for occasional periods.80% of respondents reported high satisfaction with SMBG, and reported feeling more 'in control' of their diabetes management using it. The most frequently reported use of SMBG was to make adjustments to food intake or confirm a hyperglycaemic episode.Women were significantly more likely to report feelings of guilt or self-chastisement associated with out of range readings (p = < .001).Conclusion: SMBG was clearly of benefit to this group of confirmed users, who used the results to adjust diet, physical activity or medications. However many individuals (particularly women) reported feelings of anxiety and depression associated with its use.<br/
Evolution of correlation strength in KxFe(2-y)Se2 superconductor doped with S
We report the evolution of thermal transport properties of iron-based
superconductor KFeSe with sulfur substitution at Se sites.
Sulfur doping suppresses the superconducting as well as the Seebeck
coefficient. The Seebeck coefficient of all crystals in the low temperature
range can be described very well by diffusive thermoelectric response model.
The zero-temperature extrapolated value of Seebeck coefficient divided by
temperature gradually decreases from to a very small
value 0.03 V/K where is completely suppressed. The normal
state electron Sommerfeld term () of specific heat also decreases
with the increase of sulfur content. The dcrease of and
reflects a suppression of the density of states at the Fermi energy, or a
change in the Fermi surface that would induce the suppression of correlation
strength.Comment: 5 Pages, 4 figures, 1 Table; submitted to Physical Review
Creation and luminescence of size-selected gold nanorods
Fluorescent metal nanoparticles have attracted great interest in recent years for their unique properties and potential applications. Their optical behaviour depends not only on size but also on shape, and will only be useful if the morphology is stable. In this work, we produce stable size-selected gold nanorods (aspect ratio 1-2) using a size-selected cluster source and correlate their luminescence behaviour with the particle shape. Thermodynamic modelling is used to predict the preferred aspect ratio of 1.5, in agreement with the observations, and confirms that the double-icosahedron observed in experiments is significantly lower in energy than the alternatives. Using these samples a fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy study observed two photon luminescence from nanoparticle arrays and a fast decay process (<100 ps luminescence lifetime), which are similar to those found from ligand stabilized gold nanorods under the same measurement conditions, indicating that a surface plasmon enhanced two-photon excitation process is still active at these small sizes. By further reducing the nanoparticle size, this approach has the potential to investigate size-dependent luminescence behaviour at smaller sizes than has been possible before
The X-ray Properties of M101 ULX-1 = CXOKM101 J140332.74+542102
We report our analysis of X-ray data on M101 ULX-1, concentrating on high
state Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. We find that the high state of M101
ULX-1 may have a preferred recurrence timescale. If so, the underlying clock
may have periods around 160 or 190 days, or possibly around 45 days. Its
short-term variations resemble those of X-ray binaries at high accretion rate.
If this analogy is correct, we infer that the accretor is a 20-40 Msun object.
This is consistent with our spectral analysis of the high state spectra of M101
ULX-1, from which we find no evidence for an extreme (> 10^40 ergs/s)
luminosity. We present our interpretation in the framework of a high mass X-ray
binary system consisting of a B supergiant mass donor and a large stellar-mass
black hole.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
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