Designing Audience Participation and Gamification in Intermedia Performance

Large Audience Participation, Technology, and Orchestral Performance

Glimmer, a composition for chamber orchestra and audience, uses novelty light sticks, video cameras, computer software, multi-colored stand lights, and projected video animation to create a continuous feedback loop in which audience activities, software algorithms, and orchestral performance together create the music. This paper establishes the aesthetic background and motivations behind Glimme...

Designing Interactive Audience Participation using Smart phones in a Musical Performance

In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of an interactive system for audience participation in live performances using smart phones to control the stereo panorama of the lead guitar. The systemwas developed through feedback from both spectators and artists. The evaluation was conducted during a live concert and builds on interviews and video analysis. Findings include that musicians...

Designing for Audience Engagement

I will start with a question that constantly lingers in the back of my mind as an experience designer, “how do I define what I do in a simple way?” For me, the practice of ‘experience design’ is designing for people with the objective of engaging them in positive experiences. Designing for people and engaging them requires knowing and thinking about the people who might use the specific product...

massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework

Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation

At SIGGRAPH in 1991, Loren and Rachel Carpenter unveiled an interactive entertainment system that allowed members of a large audience to control an onscreen game using red and green reflective paddles. In the spirit of this approach, we present a new set of techniques that enable members of an audience to participate, either cooperatively or competitively, in shared entertainment experiences. O...