Facilitating Meaningful Experience with Ambient Media

Tan, Liang; Chow, Kenny K. N.

doi:10.1145/3080631.3080638

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“…In the authors' prior studies, ambient media has been defined as a novel media form that integrates digital technologies into existing objects and environments in a public space for engaging people in embodied interaction. Three main properties have been identified; the physical environment in a public space (spatiality) can be transformed into an interactive media form that engages people in embodied interaction (engagement) and elicits unexpected responses (unexpectedness) [29,33]. Research into HCI regards ambient media as a combination of physical space and digital technology, which offers people with possibilities for natural interaction [34,35].…”

Section: Experience With Ambient Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous empirical research [33,53] investigated embodied experience with ambient media through conducting experiments on a prototype. The main questions were: What major factors of audience experience can be identified?…”

Section: Empirical Study On the Piano Staircasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, eliciting unexpected responses also plays an important role in embodied interaction with ambient media. Based on our empirical research [33] and the analysis of design ideas (Section 4.3), unexpectedness is closely coupled with engagement with ambient media. When encountering an ambient medium, visual properties mismatching the physical space in function (e.g., the piano keyboard integrated with the staircase) can attract an audience's attention and increase the perceivability of the affordance for engaging in interaction.…”

Section: Embodied Interaction With Ambient Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media

Tan

Chow

2018

MTI

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With the emerging trend in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) shifting focus from usability to facilitating meaningful experiences, the notion of embodied cognition provides designers and researchers with valuable insight into how the body-mind interplay can influence meaning-making during embodied experiences. This paper presents an approach to designing embodied interactions with ambient media. Building on theories of embodied cognition and cognitive semantics, we developed our approach by conducting a series of studies, including an interpretive case analysis, empirical research into audience experience and design ideations, as well as designerly reflections on design. Our findings showed that an embodied approach is applicable for designing meaningful interactions, by coupling bodily engagement with metaphorical meanings. Design implications and future work are also presented.

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Section: Experience With Ambient Mediamentioning

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Section: Embodied Interaction With Ambient Mediamentioning

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An Embodied Approach to Designing Meaningful Experiences with Ambient Media

Tan

Chow

2018

MTI

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“…Empirical studies partly prove that the meaning expression of product is also structured by embodied schemas, and user experience with products is highly related to bodily experience [26]. Building upon embodied interaction, the previous studies have explored the relationship between bodily engagement with ambient media and four experiential qualities [24,25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The audience may experience unexpected feedbacks (Unexpectedness) when being engaged in interactions with ambient media (Engagement). Audience experience is an active process of engagement where the perceptual, emotional, kinesthetic, and cognitive responses are derived from interactions [6,7,25].…”

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Piano Staircase: Exploring Movement-Based Meaning Making in Interacting with Ambient Media

Tan

Chow

2017

Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017

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While embodiment is widely accepted as an important theoretical basis in interaction design and HCI, few studies explore movement-based meaning making in interacting with ambient media. Building on embodied interaction, this paper aims to identify and analyze key characteristics of audience experience and the role of bodily movement in meaningful making through an empirical study. A prototype "Piano Staircase" is built for experience tests and empirical data collection. Experiments with 30 participants have been conducted. The findings show bodily interaction can activate embodied conceptual mapping and facilitate meaningful audience experience. The model of embodied meaning making provides possibilities for analyzing meaningful experience with ambient media.

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