Papers by Cedric J Spindler
Technology - Human - Design: Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing
The paper is based on the developments of the research project łParadigms of Ubiquitous Computing... more The paper is based on the developments of the research project łParadigms of Ubiquitous Computingž, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, 100016_185436 / 1), 2019-23. It investigates the impact of environmentally embedded sensor-actuator systems on humans. With a critical stance, we examine humanmachine interfaces to make quantitative statements about behavior patterns and attitudes, only based on their physical interactions with a responsive environment. By staging different paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing in an experimental setup and evaluating them with test persons, we aim to gain insights into the human experience and appropriation of immersive and sometimes challenging situations. The artistic approach is based on strategies of New Media Art and Speculative Design and is not aligned with processes commonly used in applied research and development. The evaluation design is based on mixed methods with a strong emphasis on semantic differentials to quantify user interactions with electronically enhanced devices and furnishings. The focus is on interaction design strategies and evaluation design methods.
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2023
In this paper, we present theoretical basics, creative development processes, and partial evaluat... more In this paper, we present theoretical basics, creative development processes, and partial evaluation results of human behavior and attitude in a dramaturgically staged interactive environment. The installation is set up in a media lab and the separate rooms are carefully designed to provoke emotional and cognitive human reactions. The corresponding installed sensor-actuator system includes different types of embedded sensors and tangible interfaces to create a fully embodied experience for participants walking through the artistic research facility. We evaluate and compare two opposite design approaches to investigate the impact of dramaturgy, design strategies, and furnishing on affective human-machine correlations and appropriation processes.
Contextual Behavior Evaluation Design for an Artistic Research Setting
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2022
With this poster we propose the concept of “Contextual Behavior Evaluation Design” which was deve... more With this poster we propose the concept of “Contextual Behavior Evaluation Design” which was developed for the artistic research project “Technology, Human, Design - Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing” (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2019-22). We present theoretical principles, the immersive research setup, and the mixed methods applied for data collection and evaluation. The focus is on the question whether it is possible to identify personal attitudes of people towards a sensor-technologically enhanced environment on the basis of behavioral patterns in key situations (without access to personal data). Subsequently, we discuss design strategies, exemplary algorithms and initial findings.
Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2015 on Interaction With Sound - AM '15, Oct 7, 2015
Following a call for clear movement-sound relationships in motion-controlled digital musical inst... more Following a call for clear movement-sound relationships in motion-controlled digital musical instruments (DMIs), we developed a sound design concept and a DMI implementation with a focus on transparency through intuitive control metaphors. In order to benefit from the listener’s and performer’s natural understanding of physical processes around them, we use gestures with strong physical associations as control metaphors, which are then mapped to sound modules specifically designed to represent these associations sonically. The required motion data can be captured by any low-latency sensor device worn on the hand or wrist, that has an inertial measurement unit with six degrees of freedom. A dimension space analysis was applied on the current implementation in order to compare it to existing DMIs and illustrate its characteristics. In conclusion, our approach resulted in a DMI with strong results in transparency, intuitive control metaphors, and a coherent audio-visual link.
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Papers by Cedric J Spindler