Nightingallery: theatrical framing and orchestration in participatory performance

Robyn Taylor; Guy Peter Schofield; John Shearer; Peter C. Wright; Pierre Boulanger; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1007/s00779-014-0763-6

Nightingallery: theatrical framing and orchestration in participatory performance

Robyn Taylor, Guy Peter Schofield, John Shearer, Peter C. Wright, Pierre Boulanger, Patrick Olivier

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

Abstract The Nightingallery project encouraged participants to converse, sing, and perform with a musically responsive animatronic bird, playfully interacting with the character while members of the public could look on and observe. We used Nightingallery to frame an HCI investigation into how people would engage with one another when confronted with unfamiliar technologies in conspicuously public, social spaces. Structuring performances as improvisational street theatre, we styled our method of exhibiting the bird character. We ...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1583-1600
Number of pages	18
Journal	Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Volume	18
Issue number	7
Early online date	22 Feb 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0763-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2014

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