Media studies, mobile augmented reality, and interaction design

Bolter, Jay David; Engberg, Maria; MacIntyre, Blair

doi:10.1145/2405716.2405726

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“…If our arguments above are appropriate, then the implication is that media and communication studies need to embrace an interventionist stance in order to produce meaningful and relevant knowledge on collaborative media (cf. similar positions advanced in [24][25][26]). …”

Section: Interaction Design Researchsupporting

confidence: 69%

The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

Löwgren

Reimer

2013

Challenges

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Abstract:Collaborative media entail an emerging set of digitally mediated practices, characterized by collaborative communicative action within organically developing, cross-medial infrastructures. We argue that computers are increasingly turning from tools into (collaborative) media in everyday use, and that this shift poses a significant challenge to the discipline of interaction design. Particularly prominent aspects of the challenge include the way design processes are conceptualized and structured, and the way in which communicative perspectives take precedence over instrumental ones.

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The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

Löwgren

Reimer

2013

Challenges

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“…In studying digital aesthetics, we need not look exclusively for ways in which digital media reconfigure our senses physiologically; rather, we can acknowledge how various individual choices and cultural factors contribute to the reconfiguration. One of us (Engberg) has labeled the dominant aesthetic mode Engberg and Bolter 5 of digital culture today polyaesthetic (Bolter et al, 2013). This polyaesthetic condition is one in which we surround ourselves with media forms and modes.…”

Section: Digital Aesthetics and Armentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural expression in augmented and mixed reality

Engberg

Bolter

2014

Convergence

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Most readers of Convergence will have some familiarity with the developing digital media forms that go under the name of augmented reality and mixed reality (MAR or separately, AR and MR). The widespread availability of smart phones in the last 10 years has redefined AR and MR that had previously been confined to the laboratory. Smart phones and tablets have become the platform for a variety of applications in which digital text, images, video, and audio are overlaid on the screen and appear to be present in the space around the user. In addition, the smart phone or tablet can typically determine the user's location in the world and orientation in his/her immediate environment. Along with the commercial uses for location-sensitive advertising, new forms of cultural expression (e.g. for art, design, and social media) are beginning to appear. Appropriately for this journal, these new forms can best be studied by a convergence of disciplines, including media studies, art history, literary theory, philosophy (particularly phenomenology), interaction design, sociology, anthropology, communication studies, human-computer interaction, and computer science. Many of these disciplines are represented in the contributions in this special issue that focuses on the ways in which AR and MR participate in cultural expression in today's heterogeneous media economy. Do AR and MR constitute a new medium? What are the specific qualities of the new medium that give rise to new forms of cultural expression? Are AR and MR two different media with different characteristic qualities and affordances? Over the past two decades, computer scientists have analyzed AR and MR as media forms from their own technical and operational perspectives (e.g. Milgram and Kashino, 1994). These questions are addressed from artistic and theoretical perspectives by the contributions to this special issue. The 'medium' question still underlies much of our discourse about the various digital technologies and their uses today, and the notion of medium has been naturalized today to such an extent that we may overlook its history in the 20th century. It is worth recalling that history in order to understand how the notion may limit our ability to appreciate the position that new forms such as AR and MR occupy in our media culture.

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“…Augmented reality applications such as these enable users to virtually explore and walk along trails at Yellowstone National Park or fly around London's skyline diving into highlighted points of interest. Along the way contextual callouts provide additional, interactive media overlays for a more dynamic user experience (Bolter, Engberg, & MacIntyre, 2013).…”

Section: Offering New Visuospatial Ways To Curate Collections and Envmentioning

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Stories in the Rock: A Design Case of an Explorable Image Viewer in a Natural History Museum

Louw

Ansari

Bartley

et al. 2013

IJDL

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This design case explores the affordances of gigapixel image technology for science communication and learning in museum settings through the iterative development of an explorable image viewer to engage visitors in an archaeological exhibit. We reflect on the series of user studies, prototype iterations, and design decisions taken to optimize navigation, annotation and exploration in this zoomable user interface. We highlight a set of design precedents, interaction frameworks, and content structuring approaches, while detailing the development of a media rich digital annotation strategy to augment interpretation, commentary, and conversation about a petroglyph site. Through this work, we highlight the unique affordances of multiscalar image platforms to scaffold disciplinary observation and engagement with scientific content.

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Media studies, mobile augmented reality, and interaction design

Cited by 52 publications

References 5 publications

The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

Cultural expression in augmented and mixed reality

Stories in the Rock: A Design Case of an Explorable Image Viewer in a Natural History Museum

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