Using media façades to engage social interaction

  • Authors:
  • Sven Gehring;Antonio Krüger

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Media façades in urban spaces offer great potential for new forms of collaborative multi-user interaction. Beyond interaction, they also allow for connecting people and for triggering social interaction between the different users. We report on our experiences of how simultaneous interaction with a media façade at-a-distance can engage social offline interaction between users. We built an application that allows for simultaneous painting on a façade, and gathered informal feedback during the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.