Steve will talk about a new collaboration with the Biomedical Research Centre.
The Digitopia interactive combines on-screen graphics and musical arrangements. It was designed to accompany a dance performance for young audiences, with which it toured. Available in the theatre foyers before and after the show on up to eight tablet computers, families collaboratively created graphics arrangements and soundscapes that were directly inspired by the dance performance. Drawing on our evaluation results, we detail how both children and adults used the interactive and how the design coped with very variable foyer layouts and locations. We then discuss the ways in which the Digitopia interactive allowed for a spatial and temporal extension of the dance performance and how it enabled families to more deeply engage with the concepts of that performance.
University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Nottingham, NG8 1BB
email: mrl@cs.nott.ac.uk