WikiNect: towards a gestural writing system for kinetic museum wikis

Authors:
Alexander Mehler;Andy Lücking
Affiliations:
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany;Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on User experience in e-learning and augmented technologies in education
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We introduce WikiNect as a kinetic museum information system that allows museum visitors to give on-site feedback about exhibitions. To this end, WikiNect integrates three approaches to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): games with a purpose, wiki-based collaborative writing and kinetic text-technologies. Our aim is to develop kinetic technologies as a new paradigm of HCI. They dispense with classical interfaces (e.g., keyboards) in that they build on non-contact modes of communication like gestures or facial expressions as input displays. In this paper, we introduce the notion of gestural writing as a kinetic text-technology that underlies WikiNect to enable museum visitors to communicate their feedback. The basic idea is to explore sequences of gestures that share the semantic expressivity of verbally manifested speech acts. Our task is to identify such gestures that are learnable on-site in the usage scenario of WikiNect. This is done by referring to so-called transient gestures as part of multimodal ensembles, which are candidate gestures of the desired functionality.