16 The Video Window : My life with a ludic system
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The Video Window is a video screen hanging next to a window on my bedroom wall, showing the image from a camera mounted to show the skyline from outside that same window. This paper describes the appeal of living with such a system, and the intermingled aesthetic, utilitarian and practical issues involved in its creation and the experience it offers. About six months ago 1 , I mounted a small video camera on a mast outside our bedroom window, oriented to pick up a view of the skyline down the hill from our house (see Figure 1). The camera output is wired directly to a small flat-screen display hung on our bedroom wall, across from our bed, and is always left on.-insert Figure 1 about here-The result is a " Video Window " hanging close to the real window of our bedroom (see Figure 2). It's a very simple configuration of technology, and isn't really " for " anything. Instead, it encourages a ludic experience (Gaver 2002) of 1 This originally appeared under the same title at I have chosen not to update the experiences described here, but am happy to report that the Video Window is still in place in our bedroom, more than three years after I rote this original account.
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