Although the scientific community increasingly recognizes that its communication with the public may shape civic engagement with science, few studies have characterized how this communication occurs online. Social media plays a growing role in this engagement, yet it is not known if or how different platforms support different types of engagement. This study sets out to explore how users engage...

This paper evaluates the influence of an additional visual aesthetic layer on the experience of concert goers during a live event. The additional visual layer incorporates musical features as well as biosensing data collected during the concert, which is coordinated by our audience engagement monitoring technology. This technology was used during a real Jazz concert. The collected measurements ...

Conventional seated audiences have relatively restricted opportunities for response. Perhaps the most salient is applause but they use their hands to make other visible movements: to fix hair, adjust glasses, scratch ears. The question we address here is whether these apparently incidental movements may provide systematic clues about an audience’s level of engagement with a performance. We inve...

As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research. In fields where crowdfunding has become a major venue for fundraising such as the arts and technology, building an audience for one's work is key for successful crowdfunding. For science, to what extent does audience buil...

We present a pilot study investigating the use of mobile technology to augment live performance dance. An augmented performance was created and viewed through an tablet device then analysed from a technical and audience standpoint. Low complexity augmentations were found to be very effective, however the device placed restrictions on higher complexity augmentations, the performance length and t...

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...

This article is concerned with the design of interactive art systems intended for display in public locations. It reviews approaches to interactive art systems and discusses the issue of creative engagement with them by the active audience. An approach to elaborating a model of creative engagement is described and exploratory work on its refinement is reported.

Audience engagement in the new government media has become indispensable to information dissemination. However, only some studies have analyzed factors influencing audience media. Even fewer compared differences between Chinese and foreign on This study is a systematic literature review, selected Scopus Cnki databases, acquired 22 papers exploratively according review objective, which summarize...

Adult learning theory suggests that meaningful engagement impacts learning. To evaluate the impact of resident-led interactive conferences on satisfaction, engagement and knowledge acquisition. A prospective study at a paediatric academic institution compared educational conferences in two formats. Control conferences were PowerPoint(®) lectures and intervention conferences included multimedia,...