The Silent Conversation: Designing for Introspection and Social Play in Art Museums

Karin Ryding

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376357

The Silent Conversation: Designing for Introspection and Social Play in Art Museums

Karin Ryding

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Abstract

This paper presents an attempt to design for a combination of social play and introspection using a ludic approach within an art museum setting. The field trial is described of a mobile web app called ‘Never let me go’, a two-player system enabling visitors to an art museum to create impromptu experiences in-situ for a companion. The study reveals that players used the app for communicating with each other during the visit, often without speaking. This led to deeply personal and introspective moments, as well as, lots of teasing and playing. The implications of allowing for social, personal and playful experiences in an art museum are discussed, as well as, the advantages and challenges of designing for improvisation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, April 25-30, 2020
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Apr 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376357
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020
Event	CHI 2020 - Honolulu, HI, USA, Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 https://chi2020.acm.org/

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Conference	CHI 2020
Location	Honolulu, HI, USA
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/2020 → 30/04/2020
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org/

Series	ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Keywords

Mobile; art; museums; experience; social; introspective; affective; play; personalisation; impromptu experience design

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Ryding, K 2020, The Silent Conversation: Designing for Introspection and Social Play in Art Museums. in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, April 25-30, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), CHI 2020, Honolulu, United States, 25/04/2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376357

The Silent Conversation: Designing for Introspection and Social Play in Art Museums. / Ryding, Karin.
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, April 25-30, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. (ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)).

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Ryding K. The Silent Conversation: Designing for Introspection and Social Play in Art Museums. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, April 25-30, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. (ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376357

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