{"id":190,"date":"2014-03-20T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2014-03-20T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T13:06:37","slug":"enterthecircle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/enterthecircle\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Circle: Playful Interaction for Public Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_191\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1010241-small.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-191\" alt=\"The display is situated within a circle of interactive boxes.\" src=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1010241-small-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1010241-small-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1010241-small-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The display is situated within a circle of interactive boxes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at the University of Glasgow, passers-by may have seen a mysterious installation in the walkway between the Boyd Orr and the Sir Alwyn Williams Building. \u00a0The installation involves a spherical touch sensitive display and eight interactive boxes filled with coloured light. \u00a0The display is encircled by a ring made up of these boxes. \u00a0Passers-by must enter the circle to touch the display and explore the installation&#8217;s interactivity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vlcsnap-2014-03-20-12h53m28s181.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192\" alt=\"Each box can be controlled by interacting with the sphere.\" src=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vlcsnap-2014-03-20-12h53m28s181-300x230.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vlcsnap-2014-03-20-12h53m28s181-300x230.png 300w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vlcsnap-2014-03-20-12h53m28s181-1024x787.png 1024w, http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vlcsnap-2014-03-20-12h53m28s181.png 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each box can be controlled by interacting with the sphere.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The installation explores issues of playfulness in public spaces, environmental control, and discovery of interactivity. \u00a0We have placed the installation in this public space in order to understand how passers-by engage with an unknown interface in a public space, what they do when confronted with something playful in nature, and how they explore its capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This work comes from a five month collaboration between the University of Glasgow and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pufferfishdisplays.co.uk\/\">Pufferfish Ltd<\/a> in Edinburgh. \u00a0The project revolves around understanding how novel display form factors influence how these displays are used in public spaces.<\/p>\n<h2>People<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/\">Dr. Julie R. Williamson<\/a>, University of Glasgow<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcs.gla.ac.uk\/~jhw\/\">Dr. John Williamson<\/a>, University of Glasgow<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.sunden.se\/\">Daniel Sund\u00e9n<\/a>, Product Designer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pufferfishdisplays.co.uk\/\">Dr. Jay Bradley<\/a>, Pufferfish Ltd<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pufferfishdisplays.co.uk\/\">Ben Allan<\/a>, Pufferfish Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at the University of Glasgow, passers-by may have seen a mysterious installation in the walkway between the Boyd Orr and the Sir Alwyn Williams Building. \u00a0The installation involves a spherical touch sensitive display and eight interactive boxes filled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/enterthecircle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}