Imeh Akpan
Daniel Harrison
ABSTRACT
Very little research has concurrently explored the influence of both physical space and social context (or place) on the way people engage with a public interactive display. We addressed this issue with a novel approach: studying how people engaged with the same interactive installation in ten situations with varying spatial and social properties. The main finding across these studies is that place trumps space: a conducive social context could overcome a poor physical space and encourage interaction; conversely, an inappropriate social context could inhibit interaction in spaces that might normally facilitate engagement. We discuss this finding in terms of the salience of the display within the space, the visibility of incidental interactions with the installation, the different understandings of place that people can have in the same location and the role of emergent champions and comperes in encouraging interaction.
- Bird, J., Faith, J. and Webster, A. Tabula Rasa: A case study in evolutionary curation. Proc. EvoMUSART (2003), 479--489. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Brignull, H., and Rogers, Y. Enticing people to interact with large public displays in public spaces. Proc. INTERACT'03 (2003), 17--24.Google Scholar
- Ciolfi, L. Understanding spaces as places: Extending interaction design paradigms. Cognition, Technology & Work, 6, 1 (2004), 37--40. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dalton, N. S., Marshall, P., Conroy-Dalton, R. Measuring environments for public displays: A Space Syntax approach. Ext Abstracts CHI'10, ACM Press (2010), 3841--3846. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fischer, P. T., Hornecker, E. Urban HCI: Spatial aspects in the design of shared encounters for media facades. Proc. CHI'12, ACM Press (2012), 307--316. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hallberg, G. Overcoming the challenges of designing interactive artworks for creative engagement in unsupervised arenas. Unpublished MSc Creative Systems Dissertation, University of Sussex, 2009.Google Scholar
- Haeusler, M. H. Media facades: History, technology. content, Avedition, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2009.Google Scholar
- Harrison, S., Dourish, P. Re-Place-ing space: The roles of place and space in collaborative systems. Proc. CSCW'06, ACM Press (2006), 67--76. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hillier, B., Space is the machine, Cambridge University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
- Hornecker, E. A design theme for tangible interaction: Embodied facilitation. Proc. ECSCW '05 (2005), 23--43. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Huang, E., Koster, A. and Borchers, J. Overcoming assumptions and uncovering practices: When does the public really look at public displays? Proc. Pervasive '08 (2008), 228--243. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Jacucci, G., Morrison, A., Richard, G. T., Kleimola, J., Peltonen, P., Parisi, L. and Laitinen, T. Worlds of information: Designing for engagement at a public multitouch display. Proc. CHI '10, ACM Press (2010), 2267--2276. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Marshall, P., Rogers, Y. and Pantidi, N. Using Fformations to analyse spatial patterns of interaction in physical environments. Proc. CSCW'11, ACM, Press (2011), 445--454. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Meakin, N. Loop Festival, Victoria Gardens, Brighton, Aug 16. The Argus. http://tinyurl.com/a8owf4mGoogle Scholar
- Michelis, D., Müller, J. The Audience funnel: Observations of gesture based interactions with multiple large displays in a city center. IJHCS, 27 (2010), 562--579.Google Scholar
- Millen, D. Rapid ethnography: Time deepening strategies for the HCI field. Proc. DIS'00, ACM Press (2000), 280--286. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Müller, J., Walter, R., Bailly, G., Nischt, M., and Alt, F. Looking glass: A field study on noticing interactivity of a shop window. Proc. CHI'12, ACM Press (2012), 297- Google ScholarDigital Library
- Müller, J., Wilmsmann, D., Exeler, J., Buzeck, M., Schmidt, A., Jay, T. and Krueger, A. Display blindness: The effect of expectations on attention towards digital signage. Proc Pervasive'09 (2009), 1--8. Google ScholarDigital Library
- O'Hara, K., Glancey, M. and Robertshaw, S. Collective play in an urban screen game. Proc. CSCW '08, ACM Press (2008), 67--75. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Peltonen, P ., Kurvinen, E., Salovaara, A., Jacucci, G., Ilmonen, T., Evans, J., Oulasvirta, A., Saarikko, P. It's Mine, Don't Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city center. Proc. CHI '08, ACM Press (2008), 1285--1294. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Scupelli, P. G., Xiao, Y., Fussell, S. R., Kiesler, S., and Gross, M. D. Supporting coordination in surgical suites: Physical aspects of common information spaces. Proc. CHI '10. ACM Press (2010), 1777--1786. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Ten Koppel, M., Bailly, G., Müller, J., and Walter, R. 2012. Chained displays: Configurations of public displays can be used to influence actor-, audience-, and passer-by behavior. Proc. CHI '12. ACM Press (2012), 317--326 Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Exploring the effects of space and place on engagement with an interactive installation
Recommendations
Adding an interactive display to a public basketball hoop can motivate players and foster community
UbiComp '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computingInteractive displays that aim to engage people through play have been successfully deployed in urban environments. However, there has been little work bringing interactive displays into existing public game spaces like outdoor basketball courts. To ...
The Role of Tangible Interaction in Exploring Information on Public Visualization Displays
PerDis '15: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive DisplaysA rising number of public displays are becoming equipped with tangible interfaces. Especially in the context of the visualization of data in the public realm, offering tangible interaction modalities might actively attract and engage passer-bys, and ...
Should Public Displays be Interactive? Evaluating the Impact of Interactivity on Audience Engagement
PerDis '15: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive DisplaysThis paper describes a comparative case study that aims to uncover the quantifiable differences between non-interactive and interactive public displays in the urban environment. The study involved a large temporary interactive public display on a ...
Comments