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Urban HCI: spatial aspects in the design of shared encounters for media facades

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Designing interactive applications for Media Facades is a challenging task. Architectural sized largescale screens can result in unbalanced installations, and meaningful interaction is easily overshadowed by the drastic size of the display. In this paper we reflect on urban technology interventions by analyzing their spatial configuration in relation to the structuring of interaction. We outline basic categories and offer a new terminology to describe these interactive situations designed for the built environment.

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    2. media facade
    3. media intervention
    4. shared encounter
    5. social technology
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