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Using whole body interaction to provoke reflection on self-awareness of social presence in public spaces

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This paper describes a design concept and prototype in which people who are absorbed and immersed in using their smart handheld devices in public spaces will be pixelated and greyed out as to suggest that they are "disconnected" from the offline, real world. The concept and implementation is still experimental but the initial prototype and preliminary results indicate that it is feasible and can be realized in an interesting, fun way.

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NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
October 2014
361 pages
ISBN:9781450325424
DOI:10.1145/2639189
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  1. Max/MSP
  2. Microsoft Kinect
  3. public spaces
  4. self-awareness
  5. social interaction
  6. whole body interaction

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