Designing structural participation in an interactive film on mental health

Simona Manni; Marian Ursu; John Gray; Migle Markeviciute; Andrew Walter; Jonathan David Hook

Designing structural participation in an interactive film on mental health

Simona Manni^*, Marian Ursu, John Gray, Migle Markeviciute, Andrew Walter, Jonathan David Hook

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Abstract

The practice of interactive documentary can provide participatory opportunities thanks to its capacity for making space for audiences to leave their marks in a film. However, participants’ inclusion has often been limited to an a-posteriori contribution of materials rather than a structural involvement in the film design. What happens when we treat participants as authors and let them imagine and design their own interactive film? This paper explores how design processes from participatory filmmaking can be adapted to achieve this goal by presenting the design process that led to the production of an interactive participatory film on mental health, Stepping Through Interactive. Five participants with lived experience of mental health problems explored, designed, and produced a non-linear film form to effectively represent their personal accounts of mental health. We review the challenges faced and the strategies deployed in the design process in view of supporting similar forms of production in other contexts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM CHI '23 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 31 Jan 2023
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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Cowling, P. I. (Principal investigator), Austin, J. (Co-investigator), Cairns, P. A. (Co-investigator), Holliman, N. S. (Co-investigator), Hook, J. D. (Co-investigator), Marsden, E. (Co-investigator), Murphy, D. T. (Co-investigator), Petrie, H. (Co-investigator), Reed, D. J. (Co-investigator), Richards, J. D. (Co-investigator), Ursu, M. (Co-investigator), Wade, A. (Co-investigator), Baier, H. (Researcher), Beale, G. (Researcher), Block, F. O. (Researcher), Deterding, C. S. (Researcher), Devlin, S. (Researcher), Drachen, A. (Researcher), Kasprowicz, R. E. (Researcher), Smith, D. P. (Researcher) & Williams, D. A. H. (Researcher)
EPSRC
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Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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