Towards Fostering Play Between Separate Spaces in a Public Venue

HCI has a longstanding interest in facilitating impromptu play between both collocated or remotely located unacquainted people. Less explored is fostering play between people in close, but separate locations. We present early results from a project investigating if ICT can facilitate new social play encounters through connecting different levels of a children’s play centre. We designed and deployed two large-scale interactive mockups of robots: a creature with an enormous tongue; and a device that physically raised children’s artworks to offer them as drawing stencils to users one storey above. Although our operation of these mockups was very ad hoc, our field-testing identified several promising insights. We suggest opportunities for further exploration in designing to connect separate places and advice for design researchers conducting similar tests.

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Robb Mitchell

Anastasia Giannousi

Christina Fyhn Nielsen

Larissa Nägele

Camilla Schibsbye

Lars Viberg-Sørensen

Aoxue Shi

Fang Yufeng

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]University of Southern Denmark, Kolding DK 6000

[0002]BNUX, Beijing Normal University

19 Xinjiekou Outer St, Beijing

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.120

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] L. Boer J. Donovan 2012 Provotypes for Participatory Innovation, in: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS ’12. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 388–397.

[2] T. Heinemann R. Mitchell 2013 Breaching Barriers to Collaboration in Public Spaces, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction TEI ’14 ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 213–220.

[3] K.G. Karahalios 2004 Social Catalysts: enhancing communication in mediated spaces.

[4] S. Paasovaara P. Jarusriboonchai T. Olsson 2017 Understanding collocated social interaction between Pokémon GO players, in: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia ACM, pp. 151–163.

[5] L.D. Riek 2012 Wizard of oz studies in HRI: a systematic review and new reporting guidelines Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 1.

[6] J.G. Sheridan N. Bryan-Kinns A. Bayliss 2007 Encouraging witting participation and performance in digital live art, in: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI... but Not as We Know It-Volume 1 British Computer Society, pp. 13–23.

[7] C. Shirky 2008 Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations Penguin.

[8] S.S. Snibbe H.S. Raffle 2009 Social immersive media: pursuing best practices for multi-user interactive camera/projector exhibits, in: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM, pp. 1447–1456.

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