Researcher, USED project (HIIT/m-cult), media artist and producer.
Research topic
Designing the user experience: reconfiguring social practices in wireless and public spaces
Research abstract
The objective of the research project is to approach the methodological challenges in experience design by developing and testing models for reconfigured social practices within wireless and public spaces in the form of experimental mms-services. The project is interested in identifying those everyday practices that seem to rapidly augment social interactions in mms-messaging, as well as those instances of friction and resistance in using mobile communication, that mark certain socially significant, transitional and affective situations. This boundary work will be enacted within wireless and public spaces and will result in a media installation, in which the mms input from the audience will be accessed through situated, multimodal interactions.
Short bio
Heidi Tikka is a practicing media artist and a researcher. Since 2003 she has worked on Tilanteita/Situations, a series of participatory mobile experiments involving families in mms based communication. Her other work includes a series of internationally shown interactive video projections. She is the recipient of the Finnish AVEK 2004 Media Art award and the Prix Möbius Nordica Innovation Award for the Tilanteita/Situations. She has been teaching media art and media culture at the UIAH Media Lab since 1997, of which 2001-2002 as the acting professor in multimedia and communication.
Links
Personal pages and portfolio: http://mlab.uiah.fi/~htikka
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