{"id":234,"date":"2009-07-31T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2021-12-22T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:22:10","slug":"audience-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Audience Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper just published in IJHCS by Stevens et al (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6WGR-4WKTX28-1&amp;_user=7377069&amp;_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2009&amp;_rdoc=8&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=browse&amp;_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236829%232009%23999329990%231368207%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&amp;_cdi=6829&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_ct=9&amp;_acct=C000043031&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=7377069&amp;md5=b76a6f8196b3e214519fe49c3a38715b\">link<\/a> to abstract) describes how members of the audience use a PDA to register their emotional responses in real-time during a number of dance performances.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting approach to studying how emotional responses may converge and diverge during particular sections of a performance.\u00a0 The PDA displays a two-dimensional space with valence and activation representing emotion (i.e. Russell&#8217;s circumplex model).\u00a0 The participants were required to indicate their position within this space with a stylus at rate of two readings per second!<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like a lot of work, so how about a physiological computing version where valence and activation are operationalised with real-time psychophysiology, e.g. a corrugator\/zygomaticus reading for valence and blood pressure\/GSR\/heart rate for activation.\u00a0 Provided that the person remained fairly stationary, it could deliver the same kind of data with a higher level of fidelity and without the onerous requirement to do self-reports.<\/p>\n<p>This system concept could really take off if you had 100s of audience members wired up for a theatre performance and live feedback of the &#8216;hive&#8217; emotion represented on stage.\u00a0 This could be a backdrop projection or colour\/intensity of stage lighting working as an en-masse biofeedback system.\u00a0 A clever installation could allow the performers to interact with the emotional representation of the audience &#8211; to check out the audience response or coerce certain responses.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps this has already been done somewhere and I missed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper just published in IJHCS by Stevens et al (link to abstract) describes how members of the audience use a PDA to register their emotional responses in real-time during a number of dance performances.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting approach to studying how emotional responses may converge and diverge during particular sections of a performance.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,19,28,59],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pY315-3M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physiologicalcomputing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}