Interactive Space as a Signal Processing Device

Abstract

Interactive properties allow the space to gain new computational qualities, becoming the driving force of people's communication with each other within the space and with the space itself via signal exchange. Interactive environment and users communicate in real time, defining further modes of this interaction and shaping common experience. This paper investigates fundamental and applied questions of sensorial response integration into spatial communication between human and non-human components within interactive experience. As a methodology full scale interactive prototype has been used as a proof of concept to test and assign various types of spatial signals effects on visitors and the degree of their responsiveness and engagement, explaining efficiency of various ways of communication between humans and the interactive environment. Tested interactive space demonstrates quality of both embodied deliberation and the variety and complexity of the socially enabling, spatially embodied situations that this built environment generates.