A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertainment Domains

Striner, Alina; Azad, Sasha; Martens, Chris

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_23

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“…Participation provides many positive benefts for games; it can increase engagement [31] and experience involvement [29]. Through immersive "deep play" [10,19,24] games can also increase emotional investment [76,79]. Game experiences can even lead to fow, a state of total immersion and optimal performance [18,23,71].…”

Section: Game Live Streamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The capacity to alter experiences has empowered audiences beyond traditional roles, and has led to a dissolution of traditional audiencehood [76]. A growing trend in live streaming shifts focus away from passive spectatorship towards active participation [73,81].…”

Section: Designing For Audience Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A growing trend in live streaming shifts focus away from passive spectatorship towards active participation [73,81]. For this reason, the HCI community has a strong interest in how technology can support audience participation in live streaming [13,32,35,64,69,76,81,86].…”

Section: Designing For Audience Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Audience participation is afected not only by the immersiveness of content, but by the immediacy of interactions with the streamer, and the sociality of the experience [34]. Reviewing theater, theme park, and game literature, Striner [76] defnes audience interactivity as a range of experiences and roles that may allow audiences to participate or interact, and describes a spectrum of audience interactivity in entertainment. Cerratto-Pargman [13] further explains these interactions are not simply social; they can become integral elements of a play experience.…”

Section: Designing For Audience Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…streamer and viewer control is essential to designing enjoyable Agency through interaction is a common theme in audience experiences for all participants. participation game literature [1,3,53,76]. In live-stream contexts, However, agency is more complex than control.…”

Section: Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mapping Design Spaces for Audience Participation in Game Live Streaming

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Webb

Hammer

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Live streaming sites such as Twitch ofer new ways for remote audiences to engage with and afect gameplay. While research has considered how audiences interact with games, HCI lacks clear demarcations of the potential design spaces for audience participation. This paper introduces and validates a theme map of audience participation in game live streaming for student designers. This map is a lens that reveals relationships among themes and sub-themes of Agency, Pacing, and Community-to explore, refect upon, describe, and make sense of emerging, complex design spaces. We are the frst to articulate such a lens, and to provide a refective tool to support future research and education. To create the map, we perform a thematic analysis of design process documents of a course on audience participation for Twitch, using this analysis to visually coordinate relationships between important themes. To help student designers analyze and refect on existing experiences, we supplement the theme map with a set of mapping procedures. We validate the applicability of our map with a second set of student designers, who found the map useful as a comparative and refective tool.

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