I felt I made some good progress with my own research planning today. Last week during the 20 minute research exercises we were doing in class I was feeling quite apathetic towards it, in the sense that I felt I partly knew the outcome – that google was an inefficient way of searching and that the conclusions I would reach in such a short time span wouldn’t be worth my time.
However today my partner really thought about our search process, we identified the different ways the search criteria (history of sight based interactive installations) could be interpreted, i.e. what do we mean bight, does this mean that sight has to cause interaction or will it just involve the sight of the viewer, or even the sight of the computer. Also by history, do we mean the history in terms of how have technology and processes changed r are we talking more literally about a timeline. It was good to go though these steps before we did any type of search.
To actually search we identified a piece of work (by Jochim Sauter – deviewer) that is quite a famous and likely early piece that uses eye-tracking technology that we looked for as a starting point. We then searched for influences for and by this work and went from there. Seemed to prove quite effective.
Also I was introduced to google scholar… I can’t believe I didn’t know about it before!
Tomorrow I start research into “the limitaions of screen based culture” for real, or at least I start work on narrowing down that title.
