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Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments

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Stephen Viller,

Peta MitchellAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2335 - 2344

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979285

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we introduce and discuss the nature of free-play in the context of three open-ended interactive art installation works. We observe the interaction work of situated free-play of the participants in these environments and, building on precedent work, devise a set of sensitising terms derived both from the literature and from what we observe from participants interacting there. These sensitising terms act as guides and are designed to be used by those who experience, evaluate or report on open-ended interactive art. That is, we propose these terms as a common-ground language to be used by participants communicating while in the art work to describe their experience, by researchers in the various stages of research process (observation, coding activity, analysis, reporting, and publication), and by inter-disciplinary researchers working across the fields of HCI and art. This work builds a foundation for understanding the relationship between free-play, open-ended environments, and interactive installations and contributes sensitising terms useful for the HCI community for discussion and analysis of open-ended interactive art works.

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Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Performing arts
2. Human-centered computing

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