This working paper advocates a methodological approach to the study of street art and graffiti that is based on the documentation of single sites over time. Longitudinal photo-documentation is a form of data collection that allows street art and graffiti to be examined as visual dialogue. By capturing everyday forms of public mark making alongside both more recognizably ‘artistic’ images, and m...

The Speech Graffiti interface is designed to be a portable, transparent interface for spoken language interaction with simple machines and information servers. Because it is a subset language, users must learn and adhere to the constraints of the language. We conducted a user study to determine habitability and found that more than 80% of utterances were Speech Graffiti-grammatical, suggesting ...

city is the most complicated and tangible creature of man. there is a critical mutual communicationbetween human and city; and the effect of one’ living environment is beyond question. graffiti is a new urbanphenomenon, which has drawn attention in light of its connection with protestation culture and street art. thanks tosymbolism of graffiti, the artists have added mysterious aspects to their...

Traditionally, artworks are seen as autonomous objects that stand (or should stand) on their own. However, at least since the emergence of Conceptual Art in the 1920s and Pop Art in the 1960s, art lacks any distinctive perceptual features that define it as such. Art, therefore, cannot be defined without reference to its context. Some studies have shown that context affects the evaluation of art...

Graffiti can sometimes be a problem when put in an inappropriate place. We looked at a means to prevent such inconvenience. In this work, we explore the possibility of developing surfaces with controlled wettability. If the paint does not spread, the graffiti does not stay. Here, the synthesis and electrodeposition of original 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) with perfluorinated nucleolipids (...

Understanding requirements of mobile communities is challenging because of their geographical distribution and frequent movement. We present a study of backpackers travelling in Australia which utilizes a research method called contextual postcard questionnaires. The method uses brief, openended questions to solicit contextual responses from backpackers that are relevant for development of tour...

Graffiti is a computer program that checks for relationships among certain graph invariants. It uses a database of graphs and has generated well over 700 conjectures. Having obtained a readily available computer tape of all the nonisomorphic graphs with 10 or fewer vertices, we have tested approximately 200 of the Graffiti conjectures and have found counterexamples for over 40 of them. For each...

In this position paper, I argue for the importance of play when designing systems for digital placemaking. I offer examples of existing placemaking systems that embody the openness prescribed by ludic design and provide an idea that could be further developed during the workshop: digital graffiti.

The handheld organizer or personal digital assistant (PDA) is rapidly becoming a popular organizational tool, and there is a need for evaluation of alphanumeric character entry on these devices. The Palm operating system, the most common PDA operating system on the market, uses two methods for character entry, an on-screen virtual keyboard and a single-character handwriting recognition system c...