Designing the spectator experience
Interaction is increasingly a public affair, taking place in our theatres, galleries, museums, exhibitions and on the city streets. This raises a new design challenge for HCI, questioning how a performer s interaction with a computer experienced is by spectators. We examine examples from art, perfor...
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2005
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| author | Reeves, Stuart Benford, Steve O'Malley, Claire Fraser, Mike |
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| description | Interaction is increasingly a public affair, taking place in our theatres, galleries, museums, exhibitions and on the city streets. This raises a new design challenge for HCI, questioning how a performer s interaction with a computer experienced is by spectators. We examine examples from art, performance and exhibition design, comparing them according to the extent to which they hide, partially reveal, transform, reveal or even amplify a performerts manipulations. We also examine the effects of these manipulations including movements, gestures and utterances that take place around direct input and output. This comparison reveals four broad design strategies: `secretive,' where manipulations and effects are largely hidden; `expressive,' where they are revealed, enabling the spectator to fully appreciate the performer's interaction; `magical,' where effects are revealed but the manipulations that caused them are hidden; and finally `suspenseful,' where manipulations are apparent, but effects only get revealed when the spectator takes their turn. |
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| spelling | nottingham-2522020-05-04T20:30:58Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/252/ Designing the spectator experience Reeves, Stuart Benford, Steve O'Malley, Claire Fraser, Mike Interaction is increasingly a public affair, taking place in our theatres, galleries, museums, exhibitions and on the city streets. This raises a new design challenge for HCI, questioning how a performer s interaction with a computer experienced is by spectators. We examine examples from art, performance and exhibition design, comparing them according to the extent to which they hide, partially reveal, transform, reveal or even amplify a performerts manipulations. We also examine the effects of these manipulations including movements, gestures and utterances that take place around direct input and output. This comparison reveals four broad design strategies: `secretive,' where manipulations and effects are largely hidden; `expressive,' where they are revealed, enabling the spectator to fully appreciate the performer's interaction; `magical,' where effects are revealed but the manipulations that caused them are hidden; and finally `suspenseful,' where manipulations are apparent, but effects only get revealed when the spectator takes their turn. ACM Press 2005 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Reeves, Stuart, Benford, Steve, O'Malley, Claire and Fraser, Mike (2005) Designing the spectator experience. In: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 4/2005, Portland, Oregon. |
| spellingShingle | Reeves, Stuart Benford, Steve O'Malley, Claire Fraser, Mike Designing the spectator experience |
| title | Designing the spectator experience |
| title_full | Designing the spectator experience |
| title_fullStr | Designing the spectator experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing the spectator experience |
| title_short | Designing the spectator experience |
| title_sort | designing the spectator experience |
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