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Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance

Authors:

Alan Chamberlain,

Leif Oppermann,

Martin Flintham,

Nick Tandavanitj,

Tom RoddenAuthors Info & Claims

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 15, Issue 7

Pages 717 - 730

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0351-3

Published: 01 October 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Touring location-based experiences is challenging, as both content and underlying location services must be adapted to each new setting. A study of a touring performance called Rider Spoke as it visited three different cities reveals how professional artists developed a novel approach to these challenges in which users drove the co-evolution of content and the underlying location service as they explored each new city. We show how the artists iteratively developed filtering, survey, visualization, and simulation tools and processes to enable them to tune the experience to the local characteristics of each city. Our study reveals how by paying attention to both content and infrastructure issues in tandem, the artists were able to create a powerful user experience that has since toured to many different cities.

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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Volume 15, Issue 7

October 2011

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ISSN:1617-4909

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