ISEA2015

For over a decade, human-computer interaction (HCI) research placed a great deal of emphasis on studying interaction, engagement, and appropriative practices in online technology-mediated social environments. Moving forward, however, we see computing systems increasingly designed to support digitally-augmented face-to-face interactions in public settings. As far back as the nineteen seventies, new media artists anticipated this interactive potential of digital public displays to foster new forms of situated interactions in urban space, quite distinct from mobile computing in that they altogether exclude online connections or exchanges. Drawing on examples of practice, here, panelists will discuss and showcase some of the key creative strategies that members of the electronic art community from all over the world have deployed in order to remediate interactive screen technology into a platform that disrupts the ordinary ebb and flow of modern city life.