Designing the spectator experience

Reeves, Stuart; Benford, Steve; O’Malley, Claire; Fraser, Mike

doi:10.1145/1054972.1055074

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“…In this section, we would like to discuss the differences between our four models based on the taxonomy proposed by Reeves et al [12]. The goal of this taxonomy is designing the spectators' experience according to how they hide or reveal manipulations and effects in interaction.…”

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Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets

Yoshimoto

Hori

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we propose four models of unmanned blimps: Robots, Pets, Agents, and Puppets, according to whether they are autonomous or not and whether they are shown to people or not. Robots and Pets are autonomous and Agents and Puppets are not autonomous. Robots and Agents are shown to people and Pets and Puppets are not shown to people. Based on these models, we approach toward interactive blimps as puppets, which visualize performances from people to people with real time effects and motions. We implemented prototype applications where people could make performances through controls of the blimp's light effects and flight motions with voice via mobile phones and a physical controller. We organized observations of these prototypes at a laboratory experiment and demo exhibitions. We also discuss our models based on spectators' experience.

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confidence: 99%

Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets

Yoshimoto

Hori

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Design approaches that make use of theatre and performance techniques involve drawing inspiration from such techniques to improve design methods aimed at experience prototyping and user involvement [5,7,12,14]. HCI has also addressed design strategies for the performer's manipulations of an interface and their resulting effects on spectators [16], and in examining the roles of users as both performers and audience in and of themselves [4], and ways of encouraging performative actions in public spaces [21]. The temporal structures of interactive experiences have also been informed by dramaturgy [1,2].…”

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Understanding performative interactions in public settings

Williamson

Hansen

Light

et al. 2014

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Interactive digital technologies pervade our shared spaces in personal, mobile, infrastructural and other embedded forms. These changes challenge the ways we understand and investigate the relationships between people, computing and settings. Responding to this situation-where ubiquitous computing is not only personal but also public, and where digital interactions may happen anywhere-this special issue explores how HCI research can use the strengths of an intersection of theory, practice and innovation in order to best address this conjunction of interactive technologies, public spaces and people interacting with or within both.With this shift to interaction happening in public spaces, people can no longer be seen as just 'users' but have to be understood as acting assemblages of bodies and technologies in the space they inhabit. This shift highlights the need to understand users in every setting-including those at desks and at work-as socially and culturally situated humans with agency. While this is not a new research development, this special issue speculates on and discusses how the shift to 'everywhere interactions' makes it important for research in human-computer interaction to reach beyond existing conventions. With this work comes a need to understand the interacting human as a situated body that is at any moment also a possible spectacle: as a body, a human and a user who engages with technology in response to the situation while also being a 'performance' for others to witness. Understanding people as actors in their context allows us to regard every user as a 'performing body' and a 'performing subject', and it enables us to analyse the performative aspects of interaction in many other situations than those where we design for actually staged performances in a defined performance space or stage. In this sense, 'performative interaction' is both concerned with technologies for on-stage performers using technologies as part of artistic expression, and an analytical frame for understanding every situation in which people engage with technologies (in public space). The question becomes: where and in which situations is this analytical frame relevant and useful?Recognising a growing interest in the HCI community to work with ubiquitous computing as a personal but also public technology, the editors set out to explore a number of topics within performative interaction that would develop and possibly consolidate contemporary work into a nuanced perspective on human-computer interaction in public space. Partly based on previous work with these questions, we selected contributions that expand our understanding of performative interfaces in a variety of settings as well as demonstrate ways of participating in performative interaction, of developing techniques for hiding and showcasing different elements of performance and of evaluating the experience of performing in public.

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“…Following from Goffman's assertion that all actions done in a public setting are performances [8], the performance of an interaction with a mobile device can range from unconscious, automatic actions to explicit and deliberate performance on a stage. The presence of spectators and their affect on the performers has a major influence on the type of interaction the performer will experience [14]. Because of this, performer and spectator roles should play an important part in the design of multimodal mobile interfaces and the evaluation of social acceptability.…”

Section: User Experience and Spectatorsmentioning

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Gesture-Based Interfaces: Practical Applications of Gestures in Real World Mobile Settings

Rico

Crossan

Brewster

2011

Whole Body Interaction

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In the past, the design of gesture-based interfaces has focused on issues of gesture recognition with consideration of social or practical factors that affect the ability of users to perform gestures on the go largely missing. This work describes two important aspects of gestures design for mobile gesture and body-based interaction. First, this paper discusses the social acceptability of using gesture-based interfaces in the variety of locations where mobile interfaces are used. This includes a discussion of a variety of methods that can be used to evaluate social acceptability early on in the development process. Second, this paper discusses the practical implications of creating gesture recognition using accelerometer based sensing given the challenges of gesturing in mobile situations. This includes a discussion of body-based interactions and the scenarios where these might be used successfully.

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Designing the spectator experience

Cited by 338 publications

References 22 publications

Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets

Designing Interactive Blimps as Puppets

Understanding performative interactions in public settings

Gesture-Based Interfaces: Practical Applications of Gestures in Real World Mobile Settings

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