Interactive Experience in the Digital Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Interactive Experience, Art and Evaluation

   • Linda Candy, Sam Ferguson

   Pages 1-10

3. Human Computer Interaction, Art and Experience

   • Ernest A. Edmonds

   Pages 11-23

4. Evaluation and Experience in Art

   • Linda Candy

   Pages 25-48

5. Keeping Research in Tune with Practice

   • Andrew Johnston

   Pages 49-62

6. Interactive Art, Autonomy and Evaluation

   • Scott L. Simon

   Pages 63-73

7. The Machine as Autonomous Performer

   • Oliver Bown, Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders

   Pages 75-90

8. Intimate Aesthetics and Facilitated Interaction

   • Lian Loke, George Poonkhin Khut

   Pages 91-108

9. The Network Unveiled: Evaluating Tele-musical Interaction

   • Roger Mills, Kirsty Beilharz

   Pages 109-122

10. Mutual Engagement in Digitally Mediated Public Art

    • Nick Bryan-Kinns

    Pages 123-138

11. The Role of Emotions in Art Evaluation

    • Chek Tien Tan, Sam Ferguson

    Pages 139-152

12. Blending Art Events and HCI Research

    • Derek Reilly, Fanny Chevalier, Dustin Freeman

    Pages 153-168

13. In the Wild: Evaluating Collaborative Interactive Musical Experiences in Public Settings

    • Ben Bengler, Nick Bryan-Kinns

    Pages 169-186

14. Evaluation in Public Art: The Light Logic Exhibition

    • Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Kira Askaroff, Linda Candy, Ernest A. Edmonds, Jane Faram, Gillian Hobson

    Pages 187-208

15. Experience and Evaluation in the Collective Creation of a Public Digital Exhibition

    • Stephen Barrass, Ana Luisa Sanchez Laws

    Pages 209-219

16. Curating Digital Public Art

    • Deborah Turnbull, Matthew Connell

    Pages 221-241

17. Digital Arts Entrepreneurship: Evaluating Performative Interaction

    • Jennifer G. Sheridan

    Pages 243-259

18. Back Matter

    Pages 261-267

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The use of interactive technology in the arts has changed the audience from viewer to participant and in doing so is transforming the nature of experience. From visual and sound art to performance and gaming, the boundaries of what is possible for creation, curating, production and distribution are continually extending. As a consequence, we need to reconsider the way in which these practices are evaluated. Interactive Experience in the Digital Age explores diverse ways of creating and evaluating interactive digital art through the eyes of the practitioners who are embedding evaluation in their creative process as a way of revealing and enhancing their practice. It draws on research methods from other disciplines such as interaction design, human-computer interaction and practice-based research more generally and adapts them to develop new strategies and techniques for how we reflect upon and assess value in the creation and experience of interactive art. With contributions from artists, scientists, curators, entrepreneurs and designers engaged in the creative arts, this book is an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners, working in this emerging field.

• Digital Media Art
• Evaluation
• Interaction
• Practice
• media research

“The book investigates a broad range of artistic forms, enabling technologies, and evaluation methods, putting forward an interdisciplinary research agenda relating HCI and digital art. … this book is a timely publication that can be highly beneficial to practitioners and researchers engaged in the creative arts.” (Evangelia Kavakli, Computing Reviews, June, 2015)

• Faculty of Engin. & Inform. Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Linda Candy, Sam Ferguson

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