1. Intervention and Interactive Environments
Designing Engaging Mixed Reality Environments
Peter Dalsgaard, University of Aarhus

2. Agenda
My project Theory Examples
Socio-cultural perspectives Large-scale installations
Interventions and ethnomethodology Explorative environments
Appropriation and adaptative design Audioscapes and narratives

3. Affiliations Faculty of Arts and Humanities: Center for Advanced
University of Aarhus Information and Media Studies Visualization and Interaction

4. CAVI
Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction

5. Designing Engaging Mixed Reality Environments
What makes for engaging experiences?
How can designers create engaging interactive environments?
Framework for understanding situated engagement
Design sensitivities and considerations
Design exemplars

6. Social Temporal
Technical Spatial
Experiential

7. A socio-cultural approach
Social, cultural and experiential aspects of interactive systems
Qualitative approaches and rich, contextual understandings
Embodied experience - continuous and singular
Socio-technical networks, actors, and hybrids
Aesthetics as an ecological property
Engagement in practice

8. Homographies
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

9. Homographies
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

10. Homographies
Singular experience and ongoing sense-making
Sparks reflection on unique situation
Connects with continuous experience of society
Embodied, social and cultural

11. Artefact
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12. Artefact
Human Human Artefact
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13. Interventions and Ethnomethodology
The study of people’s methods
How we make sense of the world,
display this to others, and
produce a shared order
Structures of everyday life are hidden to
us because they are mundane
Intervention and breaching experiments
make such ethnomethods visible
Experiments with behavioral patterns

14. Why ethnomethodology matters
Our behaviour crystallizes into
products and environments
They undergo reciprocal
transformations
You never design in a vacuum
You design into a socio-technical
ecology that evolves

15. Mentors in Adaptive Design

16. quot;Because of the different rates of change of its components,
a building is always tearing itself apart.quot;
Stewart Brand

18. Diocletian’s Palace

19. Adaptation online

20. “The street finds its own uses for things”
William Gibson

21. Body Movies
Relational Architecture
Dual-layered projection
Uncovering imagery and story by shadows
Social interaction necessary

22. Body Movies
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

23. Body Movies
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

24. “Designing for hackability means allowing and encouraging
people to make technologies be what they want them to be ...”
Anne Galloway

25. Reconfigurable House
Usman Haque
“The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components
that can be quot;reconfiguredquot; by its occupants. Any sensor/actuator can be connected to any other
sensor/actuator - it is the occupants of the house who determine the systems that run inside it.”

28. Further examples

29. Sky Ear
Usman Haque

32. River Glow
Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin

33. Chroma Streams - Tide and Traffic
Leni Schwendinger

34. Laser Tag
Graffiti Research Lab

35. Laser Tag
Graffiti Research Lab

36. Size
Complexity

37. Artefact
Human Human Artefact
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38. Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

39. Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Interaction Design on and in Huge Structures

40. Chromastone

41. Chromastone

42. Urban Screens

43. Story surfers, wisdom wells and hydroscopes

44. Wisdom Wells

45. Wisdom Wells

46. The Danish Electricity Museum

47. The Danish Electricity Museum

48. Audio walks
Janet Cardiff

49. Audio walks
Janet Cardiff

50. Ec(h)o
Museum soundscapes with tangible interface

51. SUOMENLINNA
SILENCE AND WHISPERS
EXPLORABLE SPATIAL NARRATIVES AT SUOMENLINNA
DALSGAARD@CAVI.DK

52. SUOMENLINNA
SILENCE AND WHISPERS
EXPLORABLE SPATIAL NARRATIVES AT SUOMENLINNA
DALSGAARD@CAVI.DK

53. ENGAGEMENT AND
EXPLORATION
INQUISITIVE
INTERACTION
PARTICIPATION AND CO-
CONSTRUCTION
APPROPRIATION AND
SENSE-MAKING
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56. Social Temporal
Technological Spatial
Experiential

57. Social Temporal
Values Unfolding
History Narratives
Relationships Sense-making
Design Sensitivities
Technological Spatial
Impression Milieu
Expression Framing
Transaction Movement
Experiential
Situated
Singular
Continuous

58. Want to know more?
www.digitalexperience.dk www.peterwrites.dk

59. Thank you for listening
peter@peterwrites.dk