Transitioning Between Audience and Performer: Co-Designing Interactive Music Performances with Children
This work addresses the problem of engaging young audiences in interactive music performances, though it is incremental as it builds on existing co-design and interactivity research.
The study explored how children want to interact with live music performances through co-design sessions, resulting in a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity that outlines design considerations and opportunities from the child perspective.
Live interactions have the potential to meaningfully engage audiences during musical performances, and modern technologies promise unique ways to facilitate these interactions. This work presents findings from three co-design sessions with children that investigated how audiences might want to interact with live music performances, including design considerations and opportunities. Findings from these sessions also formed a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity in live musical performances, outlining ways to encourage interactivity in music performances from the child perspective.