David England Liverpool John Moores University Whole Body Interaction: Opportunities and Challenges

Liverpool Liv. Pic

Non-Photorealism Wet and Cockshott, England, Waite - movement (and mapping) qualities of paint

Workshops First Workshop Liverpool: Whole Body Interaction: The Future of the Human Body Interdisciplinary workshop of artists and scientists Fitted in with FACT’s Future of the Human Body Exhibition Subsequent workshops at CHI2009, CHI2010 and ACE2011

Why Whole Body Interaction A reaction against: {Virtual, Mixed, Augmented} Realities Mobile, Ubiquitous Interaction Where the focus became/is increasing the technology and not the person or people interacting

WBI But more positively... A reaction to Bill Buxton’s Challenge to create interfaces that made fuller and better use of human capabilities And a reaction in favour of embodied/located action- following Suchman’s work on Plans and Situated Action

“Naturalism” Scot mentioned non-photorealism yesterday Central to discussions of mappings in WBI Current move to NUI may be misleading Is the most “natural” mapping also the most engaging interesting effective.... ? Compare Randal Smith’s continuum of Literal to Magical mappings in the ARK

Mixed Hello Open source camera vision work by Josh Nimoy - jMyron toolkit - edge detection

C0d3 Multi-device work by Caen Botto MAXMSP - Magic of the Spell “Magic Mapping”

Evolution Challenge Evolution of devices and technology WBI == movement, physiology, emotion, context, location, social connection etc etc. But emotional inference, for example, currently has 70-80% recognition rates with a small range of emotions

Autonomic models Our solution: the triangulation of inferences by combining multiple sources Works on the principle of Autonomic Computing (invented by IBM) for self- managing systems WBI interfaces and modules can be plugged in and replaced as they evolve

Future CHI2012 Community of Digital Arts - David England, Jill Fantuzacoffin Various Activities at the conference CHI2013 in Paris - the Digital Arts Community will continue We invite you to submit, participate, debate