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The video window: my life with a ludic system

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The video window is a video screen hanging next to a window on my bedroom wall, showing the image from a camera mounted to show the skyline from outside that same window. In this paper, I describe the appeal of living with such a system, and the intermingled aesthetic, utilitarian and practical issues involved in its creation and the experience it offers.

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I am grateful to my wife, Anne Schlottmann, for her insights on the video window, and to John Bowers for his on ludic technologies more generally.

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  1. Equator Group, Interaction Design Department, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU, London, UK

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Gaver, W.W. The video window: my life with a ludic system. Pers Ubiquit Comput 10, 60–65 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0002-2

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