Liveness in Interactive Systems
This work addresses the subtle notion of liveness for designers and researchers in human-computer interaction, but it is incremental as it revisits and refines existing concepts without introducing new methods or data.
The paper tackles the problem of defining and understanding liveness in interactive systems to support large-scale hybrid events with audience participation, resulting in new definitions and discussions on its importance.
Creating an artifact in front of public offers an opportunity to involve spectators in the creation process. For example, in a live music concert, audience members can clap, stomp and sing with the musicians to be part of the music piece. Live creation can facilitate collaboration with the spectators. The questions I set out to answer are what does it mean to have liveness in interactive systems to support large-scale hybrid events that involve audience participation. The notion of liveness is subtle in human-computer interaction. In this paper, I revisit the notion of liveness and provide definitions of both live and liveness from the perspective of designing interactive systems. In addition, I discuss why liveness matters in facilitating hybrid events and suggest future research works