Get into the Groove: Design Principles for Interactive Live Performance
April 8, 1994
As on-line communities become more responsive and media-rich,
CyberSpace takes on more and more of the properties of a live
performance. In this talk, I look at many different forms of
live performance - theatre, school, parades, demonstrations,
religious services, musical events - and examine the social and
artistic structures in these situations which encourage interactivity.
I then discuss design principles for facilitating participation
during live performance, and explore how these ideas can be applied
to the design of CyberSpace and Interactive Television.
Amy Jo Bilson recieved her Ph.D. in Visual Psychophysics in
1986, at which point a promising career in vision science was
derailed by a fascination with building things that people use.
Since then, she has been architecting software, designing user
interfaces, and playing in African dance bands. Currently, she
is Producer/Designer of Interactive Music and Audio at the Paramount
Technology Group, where she is building prototypes of musical
experiences in CyberSpace.