Planning the Review
During the planning phase we have set in advance and agreed on common relevance
criteria for inclusion/exclusion of articles in the literature review. We have also identified
the search strategies, including a list of searchable electronic databases of
scientific publications and a starting list of keywords.
The selection criteria based on which to consider an article relevant or not were
cleared and polished in several iterations at the beginning of the literature review.
Relevant articles are those that address one or more of the following issues:
• artists’ requirements for software and/or habits in utilizing it;
• software development processes and/or methodologies used for the software
developed with artist’s participation. This might include software created for
artistic purposes (e.g. digital art, art installations, etc.), artists programming/producing
software (e.g. software art) or participation in the development
of software by other means;
• collaboration between artists and software developers or computer scientists;
• research questions at the intersection between art and software (pose and/or
answer);