Investigating Multi-User Interactions

Alexander Wiethoff, Thomas Bauer and Sven Gehring: Investigating Multi-User Interactions on Interactive Media Façades

Part of Paper Session 1: Design and Implementation

Abstract: Designing interactions with media façades bears several challenges. One of them arises when multiple users are interacting with a media façade simultaneously. In this work we report on our experiences designing a mobile multi-user interaction system with a high-resolution back projection media façade in a public space.

We compare different methods to distribute temporary ownership of a media façade. We further describe our systematic design process of prototyping such a system at different scales. Our presented work covers preliminary insights into the design process of media façade interactions and it addresses domain specific challenges such as designing multi-user interactions from scratch.

Alexander Wiethoff is a lecturer at University of Munich. Read more about him at the university’s website

Thomas Bauer is also from the University of Munich

Sven Gehring works at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Read more about him

Paper Session 1: Design and Implementation
This session takes place in the morning of November 21. It features four talks:

Ben van Berkel, Astrid Piber and Filippo Lodi: Designing with the Immaterial

Dietmar Offenhuber and Susanne Seitinger: Over the Rainbow: Information Design for Low-Resolution Urban Displays

Henrika Pihlajaniemi, Toni Österlund and Aulikki Herneoja: Urban Echoes: Adaptive and Communicative Urban Lighting in the Virtual and the Real

Alexander Wiethoff, Thomas Bauer and Sven Gehring: Investigating Multi-User Interactions on Interactive Media Façades