#Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction
This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially availabl...
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| author | Pike, Matthew Ramchurn, Richard Benford, Steve Wilson, Max L. |
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| description | This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially available EEG device, affected which footage participants saw. As a performance-led piece of research in the wild, this experience, named #Scanners, was presented at a week long national exhibition in the UK. We examined the experiences of 35 viewers, and found that these forms of partially-involuntary control created engaging and enjoyable, but sometimes distracting, experiences. We translate our findings into a two-dimensional design space between the extent of voluntary control that a physiological measure can provide against the level of conscious awareness that the user has of that control. This highlights that novel design opportunities exist when deviating from these two-dimensions - when giving up conscious control and when abstracting the affect of control. Reflection on of how viewers negotiated this space during an experience reveals novel design tactics. |
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| spelling | nottingham-313322020-05-04T20:05:36Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31332/ #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction Pike, Matthew Ramchurn, Richard Benford, Steve Wilson, Max L. This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially available EEG device, affected which footage participants saw. As a performance-led piece of research in the wild, this experience, named #Scanners, was presented at a week long national exhibition in the UK. We examined the experiences of 35 viewers, and found that these forms of partially-involuntary control created engaging and enjoyable, but sometimes distracting, experiences. We translate our findings into a two-dimensional design space between the extent of voluntary control that a physiological measure can provide against the level of conscious awareness that the user has of that control. This highlights that novel design opportunities exist when deviating from these two-dimensions - when giving up conscious control and when abstracting the affect of control. Reflection on of how viewers negotiated this space during an experience reveals novel design tactics. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Pike, Matthew, Ramchurn, Richard, Benford, Steve and Wilson, Max L. (2016) #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction. In: 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'16), 7th-13th May 2016, San Jose, USA. Control; BCI; TV & Film; Interactive Multimedia. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2858036.2858276 |
| spellingShingle | Control; BCI; TV & Film; Interactive Multimedia. Pike, Matthew Ramchurn, Richard Benford, Steve Wilson, Max L. #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title | #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title_full | #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title_fullStr | #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title_full_unstemmed | #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title_short | #Scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| title_sort | #scanners: exploring the control of adaptive films using brain-computer interaction |
| topic | Control; BCI; TV & Film; Interactive Multimedia. |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31332/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31332/ |