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Insight for Emergent Interactions

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Emergence in Interactive Art

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Emergent participant experiences offer potential for creative and complex interactions. These run counter to usability expectations of HCI, though that domain is increasingly broadening its scope. Emergent experiences with art can offer more insight to interaction design, as well as the understanding of interactivity generally. Emergence is characteristically surprising, unpredictable , open-ended and with a capacity for creativity . These are complex ways of being that resonate with our experience of the natural physical world. Investigations into emergent interactions can help us move towards understanding interactivity in a similarly more complex way. The creation of emergent experiences is, however, not without challenge. The practice-based research effort taken in this text has revealed design insights and mechanisms for addressing unpredictability of the artwork and participant perceptions about lack of control . These are presented here. Insights into the creative co-creation of participant  alongside artist are also provided. All of these efforts aim to better articulate the many facets of interaction for more differentiated interactive art, understanding and participation.

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    An exception is where the openness of the work is due to other factors, for example natural processes such as the use of weather data input in Light Currents (Seevinck 2015) and Dichroic Wade (Seevinck 2016a). In these situations it is that input which is helping to generate the form of the work.

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    Sand play therapy cites the use of sand for this reason of open-ended play, as is also articulated in the humorous essay on open-ended gameplay with simple wooden blocks by H.G. Wells (Wells 1911; Kalff 1991).

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Seevinck, J. (2017). Insight for Emergent Interactions. In: Emergence in Interactive Art. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45201-2_8

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