Encounters on a Shape-changing Bench: Exploring atmospheres and social behaviour in situ

Sofie Kinch; Erik Grönvall; Marianne Graves Petersen; Majken Rasmussen

doi:10.1145/2540930.2540947

Encounters on a Shape-changing Bench: Exploring atmospheres and social behaviour in situ

Sofie Kinch, Erik Grönvall, Marianne Graves Petersen, Majken Rasmussen

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In this paper we introduce coMotion, a shape-changing bench. We explore how physical changes of the bench can shape social situations and how contextual atmospheres may affect users’ experience of the shape-changing bench and its surroundings. The bench was tested in three different contexts; a concert hall, an airport and a shopping mall. We gathered insights from more than 120 people, as they unexpectedly encountered the shape changing capabilities of the bench. By taking the user tests out of the lab and into the wild, we explored the influence of context on the users experience of a shape-changing interface, as well as on the experienced atmospheres.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI 2014. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 8
Number of pages	8
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2014
Pages	233-240
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2635-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2540930.2540947
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Shape-changing Bench
Social Dynamics
Contextual Atmospheres
User Experience
Public Spaces

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Encounters on a Shape-changing Bench: Exploring atmospheres and social behaviour in situ. / Kinch, Sofie; Grönvall, Erik; Petersen, Marianne Graves et al.
TEI 2014. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 8. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 233-240.

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