Audience Experience in an Anti-expert Age: A Survey of Theatre Audience Research

Audience participation in children's theatre performances

The gardener picks up a fir cone and rolls it through the quiet room straight towards a small child in the audience. Either the child leaves the fir cone lying where it is, or perhaps picks it up. Perhaps the child will later roll the fir cone on towards another child. Or make a gravel track around its mother. Maybe the child kneels down beside a bed full of branches and twigs and feels the mat...

Audience Experience in Sound Performance

This paper presents observations from investigating audience experience of a practice-based research in live sound performance with electronics. In seeking to understand the communication flow and the engagement between performer and audience in this particular performance context, we designed an experiment that involved the following steps: (a) performing WOSAWIP at a new media festival, (b) c...

Audience research at the crossroads : the ‘implied audience’ in media and cultural theory

Articles available via LSE Research Online are protected under intellectual property law, including copyright law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law discussed earlier versions of these ideas with various colleagues over the past year and am grateful for their constructive and critical responses. Audience research is at a crossroads. Looking backwards, the legacy o...

Capturing Audience Experience via Mobile Biometrics

Different from computer vision based approaches in audience participation research, such as in Glimmer [1] and in Flock [2], this paper presents a mobile approach to collecting and visualizing bodily responses from audience members. A mobile biometric application is designed as a novel medium that interfaces audience members to experienced content. To realize our goal on a mobile platform, a co...

massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework