Massive flux design for an interactive water installation

Abstract

This paper identifies and contextualizes the limitations and problems found in interactive installations that require a massive flux of users. It then presents a set of solutions for these practical problems and shows how they have been applied to a real life installation with exceptionally good results. The application is an interactive water installation for children and their families for the international event called "Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona 2004".

Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

“…This can be achieved by implementing games where multiple players play together, such as interactive playgrounds [11,12], or by explicitly designing interactive installations that target social interactions such as competition [13] or collaboration [14]. To evaluate whether these games achieve their specified goals, questionnaires, observational studies, and interviews are typically used [15,16].…”

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

“…When developing game mechanics to steer behavior it is important to keep the aim, the mechanic, and the measurement aligned. We would like to point out three other things in this discussion: 1) there are some limitations to the study which should be considered, mainly that the collection in itself could be acting as the steering intervention irrespective of its (aesthetical) reward, 2) our ITP seems to be quite suitable for a high throughput of players, what Parés et al [198] indicated with massive flux design, and 3) there are several beneficial aspects of an enticing strategy for steering and opportunities for applying it.…”

“…Other systems used a bouncing frame/goal for training handball [108] or soccer [107] 6 . Parés et al created an interactive water installation [196,198]. In this installation players had to create a ring of people and then move around a central fountain, to let water jet into the air in predefined sequences.…”

“…For instance, this was exemplified with the high throughput of people interacting with a water fountain, tested at the 'Universal Forum of Cultures' [198]. Morrison [258].…”

“…In the first one players are required to take certain actions to control the game. For example, Parés et al required players to stand in a ring in order to make their interactive fountain emit a stream of water [198]. This could also be seen in the way we steered coordination in the DIPP of Chapter 4, where the coordination was more or less enforced.…”