#Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction

Pike, Matthew; Ramchurn, Richard; Benford, Steve; Wilson, Max L.

Abstract

This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and meditation, as recorded by a commercially available EEG device, affected which footage participants saw. As a performance-led piece of research in the wild, this experience, named #Scanners, was presented at a week long national exhibition in the UK. We examined the experiences of 35 viewers, and found that these forms of partially-involuntary control created engaging and enjoyable, but sometimes distracting, experiences. We translate our findings into a two-dimensional design space between the extent of voluntary control that a physiological measure can provide against the level of conscious awareness that the user has of that control. This highlights that novel design opportunities exist when deviating from these two-dimensions - when giving up conscious control and when abstracting the affect of control. Reflection on of how viewers negotiated this space during an experience reveals novel design tactics.

Citation

Pike, M., Ramchurn, R., Benford, S., & Wilson, M. L. (2016, May). #Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction. Presented at CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose California USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Start Date: May 7, 2016
• End Date: May 12, 2016
• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2016
• Publication Date: May 7, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 22, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 7, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2016-May
• Pages: 5385-5396
• Book Title: CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 9781450333627
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858276
• Keywords: Control; BCI; TV & Film; Interactive Multimedia.
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/980302
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858276