David England Liverpool John Moores University Whole Body
David England Liverpool John Moores University Whole Body Interaction: Opportunities and Challenges
Liverpool • Liv. Pic
Non-Photorealism • Wet and • Cockshott, England, Waite - movement (and mapping) qualities of paint
Workshops • • • First Workshop Liverpool: Whole Body Interaction: The Future of the Human Body 2007 Interdisciplinary workshop of artists and scientists Fitted in with FACT’s Future of the Human Body Exhibition • Subsequent workshops at CHI 2009, CHI 2010 and ACE 2011
Why Whole Body Interaction • A reaction against: • {Virtual, Mixed, Augmented} Realities • Mobile, Ubiquitous Interaction • Where the focus became/is increasing the technology and not the person or people interacting
WBI • But more positively. . . • A reaction to Bill Buxton’s Challenge to create interfaces that made fuller and better use of human capabilities • And a reaction in favour of embodied/located action- following Suchman’s work on Plans and Situated Action
“Naturalism” • • Scot mentioned non-photorealism yesterday Central to discussions of mappings in WBI Current move to NUI may be misleading Is the most “natural” mapping also the most • • engaging interesting effective. . ? Compare Randal Smith’s continuum of Literal to Magical mappings in the ARK
Mixed Hello • Open source camera vision work by Josh Nimoy - j. Myron toolkit - edge detection
C 0 d 3 • Multi-device work by Caen Botto MAXMSP - Magic of the Spell “Magic Mapping”
Evolution • Challenge Evolution of devices and technology • WBI == movement, physiology, emotion, context, location, social connection etc. • But emotional inference, for example, currently has 70 -80% recognition rates with a small range of emotions
Autonomic models • Our solution: the triangulation of inferences by combining multiple sources • Works on the principle of Autonomic Computing (invented by IBM) for selfmanaging systems • WBI interfaces and modules can be plugged in and replaced as they evolve
Future • CHI 2012 Community of Digital Arts David England, Jill Fantuzacoffin • Various Activities at the conference • CHI 2013 in Paris - the Digital Arts Community will continue • We invite you to submit, participate, debate
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