Mixing and Re-Purposing Realities

This paper discusses a mixed reality that intertwines two parallel spaces, a real and a virtual contemporary sculpture park. With the goal to create a game that motivated children to explore the park and engage with the artworks, we engaged with children as informants. We developed a cast of characters based on the children’s input that lived in the sculpture park. Using the characters as inspiration we created a three-act narrative, with the canonical trajectory provided as a sequential clues treasure hunt. The clues are integrated into character dialogue, with traversal and transitions reinforced through the narrative. Although the narrative and game were designed for a collaborative, multi-user, multi-device experience, the characters, narrative and experience were rapidly re-purposed for an individual game on a mobile phone. This re-purposing focused on the transitions, using dramatic narrative to reinforce and mask reality change. Our results are positive, children enjoyed the mixed reality experiences and are keen to engage in different realities. Re-purposing assets, such as characters and narratives as well as virtual spaces is effective, enabling rapid development of similar, yet very different mixed reality experiences.

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Tom Flint

Lynne Hall

Fiona Stewart

Catherine O’Brien

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-11

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[1 ] Edinburgh Napier University

[2 ] University of Sunderland

[3 ] Jupiter Artland Edinburgh

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.39

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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] S. BenfordG. GiannachiB. KolevaT. Rodden 2009 From Interaction to Trajectories: Designing Coherent Journeys Through User Experiences In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 709 718 New York, NY, USA ACM http://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518812

[2] D. Benyon 2012 Presence in Blended Spaces Interacting with Computers. 24 4 219 226 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2012.04.005

[3] D. BenyonO. MivalS. Ayan 2012 Designing Blended Spaces In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers 398 403 Swinton, UK, UK British Computer Society Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2377916.2377974

[4] Curious Directive 2018 FROGMAN - A Groundbreaking VR/Theatre Hybrid Retrieved 13 April 2018, from http://www.curiousdirective.com/frogmantour/

[5] T. C. Davis 2005 Do You Believe in Fairies?: The Hiss of Dramatic License Theatre Journal 57 1 57 81 http://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2005.0007

[6] A. Druin 2002 The role of children in the design of new technology Behaviour and Information Technology 21 1 1 25 http://doi.org/10.1080/01449290110108659

[7] European Commission 2016 Cultural heritage - Digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation - Progress Report 2013-15 Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

[8] S. Field 1982 The Screenwriter’s Workbook London Random House

[9] T FlintP TurnerA Banach(2016 The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park IDC ’16 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 680 683 doi:10.1145/2930674.2938613 ISBN 9781450343138

[10] L. FoshK. LorenzS. BenfordB. Koleva 2015 Personal and social? Designing personalised experiences for groups in museums Presented at the MW2015: Museums and the Web 2015 Retrieved from http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/personal-and-social-designing-personalised-experiences-for-groups-in-museums/

[11] D. Freeman 2004 Creating Emotion in Games San Francisco CA New Riders

[12] B. O’KeefeD. BenyonG. ChandwaniM. Menon 2013 A Blended Space for Heritage Storytelling Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)Southport UK doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2014.10

[13] H. Örnerbring 2007 Alternate Reality Gaming and Convergence Culture International Journal of Cultural Studies 10 4 445 462

[14] M. Roussou 2004 Learning by Doing and Learning Through Play: An Exploration of Interactivity in Virtual Environments for Children Comput. Entertain. 2 1 10 10 http://doi.org/10.1145/973801.973818

[15] A. Shrikant 2017 May 10 10 Museum Apps to Make Your Family‟s Visit Easier Retrieved 27 January 2018, from http://www.mommynearest.com/article/10-museum-apps-to-make-your-familys-visit-easier

[16] P. TurnerR. HetheringtonS. TurnerM. Kosek 2015 The limits of pretending Digital Creativity 26(3 4)304 317 http://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2015.1091778

[17] S. TurnerC.-W. HuangL. BurrowsP. Turner 2016 Make-Believing Virtual Realities In Digital Make-Believe 27 47)Springer Cham http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29553-4_3

[18] K. Walton 1990 Mimesis as make-believe: on the foundations of the representational arts Cambridge MA Harvard University Press

[19] D. Winnicott 1982 Playing and Reality London Routledge

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