I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public

Reeves, Stuart; Greiffenhagen, Christian; Flintham, Martin; Benford, Steve; Adams, Matt; Farr, Ju Row; Tandavantij, Nick

Abstract

We present a study of a mixed reality game called 'I'd Hide You' that involves live video streaming from the city streets. We chart the significant challenges facing performers on the streets who must simultaneously engage in the game, stream compelling video footage featuring themselves, and interact with a remote online audience. We reveal how these street performers manage four key tensions: between their body and camera; between the demands of online audiences and what takes place on-the-street; between what appears 'frontstage' on camera versus what happens 'backstage'; and balancing being a player of the game with being a performer. By reflecting on how they achieve this, we are able to draw out wider lessons for future interfaces aimed at supporting people broadcasting video of themselves to online audiences while engaged in games, sports and other demanding real-world activities.

Citation

Reeves, S., Greiffenhagen, C., Flintham, M., Benford, S., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., & Tandavantij, N. (2015). I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2573-2582). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702257

• Conference Name: CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Conference Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Start Date: Apr 18, 2015
• End Date: Apr 23, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Apr 18, 2015
• Publication Date: Apr 18, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 22, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: May 22, 2015
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2015-April
• Pages: 2573-2582
• Book Title: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 9781450331456
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702257
• Keywords: Video, Live Broadcasting, Camerawork, Public Settings
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/992925
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702257
• Additional Information: Published in: CHI '15: proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3145-6. pp. 2573-2582, doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702257 ; Winner of a CHI 2015 Honourable Mention