Abstract
In the late 1980s, a Berlin based group of designers and artists from Berlin’s University of Arts teamed up with hackers and programmers coming from the ChaosComputerClub environment. Together, they founded ART+COM. Up to that time, everyone from this group had used computers only as a tool. At the same time, all of them knew that this technology was on the verge of turning from a tool to a (mass)medium used not only to process and edit information but also to spread and to convey it. The quality most important to this new medium was and still is its potential for interaction (generating a mutual dialog between the users and the application) that distinguishes it from the classic mass media like print, radio, TV and the traditional fine arts like painting and sculpture.
What are the possibilities, the strategies and the right approaches to use interactivity and interfaces to access information in public space (e.g. urban environments) and semi-public space (e.g. museums)?
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Sauter, J. (2008). Interfaces in Public and Semi-public Space. In: Sommerer, C., Jain, L.C., Mignonneau, L. (eds) The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79870-5_4
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