Designing Collaborative Co-Located Interaction for an Artistic Installation

Abstract

In this paper we present a preliminary user study conducted on a walk-up-and-use musical instrument dubbed Collective Loops specifically designed for co-located collaborative interaction for the general public. The aim of this study was to verify that displaying all users' choices in a shared interface would promote and facilitate user engagement in creative collaboration. Although the results do not confirm our hypothesis, the experiment allowed us to detect a more general design issue with such walk-up-and-use multi-display installations: striking the right balance between the different interfaces in order to release some of the users attention for the benefit of the collaborative process.

Interaction Topologies in Mobile-Based Situated Networked Music Systems

“…The rating proposed here are based on our own experience of the systems as designers and discussions with participants. As such, our point here is not to propose a formal user evaluation for each, which would be out of the scope of this paper (interested readers can refer to [23] for such work concerning Collective Loops), but rather to propose a series of starting points for discussion and analysis. These criteria provide complementary properties to the ones exhibited by the interaction topologies.…”