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Structuring Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Installation Through Swarms of Light Rays with Human-Artifact Model

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Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (ArtsIT 2016, DLI 2016)

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We present the design and evaluation of an interactive installation to be explored by movement and sound under Human-Activity Model. In the installation, movement qualities that are extracted from the motion tracking data excite a dynamical system (a synthetic flock of agents), which responds to the movement qualities and indirectly controls the visual and sonic feedback of the interface. In other words, the relationship between gesture and sound are mediated by synthetic swarms of light rays. A test session was conducted with eleven subjects, who were asked to investigate the installation and to fill out a questionnaire afterwards. In this paper, we report our preliminary work on the analysis of the tensions of interaction with the installation under the Human-Artifact Model. Our results indicate exploration and discovery as the main motives of the interaction. This is different than utilitarian HCI artifacts, where the instrumental aspects are typically in the foreground.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Cumhur Erkut

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    Jonas Fehr

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Erkut, C., Fehr, J. (2017). Structuring Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Installation Through Swarms of Light Rays with Human-Artifact Model. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E. (eds) Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. ArtsIT DLI 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_5

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