talk with Liam Jefferie's

Liam was recommended to me as a good person to talk as he has a great deal on knowledge on the uses of digital art and measuring user interaction.

We discussed my current areas of research were it could go, further reading into those areas and also my methodolgy behind my practical.

We discussed a lot about measuring how engaging work especially in the context of interactive art pieces (likely in an art gallery).

The two main outcomes from it were measuring if the participant had learnt anything and the other was to see whether the participant had an emotional response to it. Measuring both has their own merit and pitfalls, its easy to see if the participant learnt anything because it can be such a wide range from a small amount to a big concept and this can be done via surveying in a gallery space. The other can be done somewhat via observation just by seeing how people react to the work which would be significantly easier but likely less accurate.

The main thing I got from this is that these are two approaches to judge art by and a somewhat quantifiable way of measuring how successful art is. This can be applied to the use of apps whilst analysing them or using them as case studys.