LAIT, The Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies: Don’t “Turn it Off” — “Turn it On!”

Symposium:

• ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Expanding Performance

• LAIT, The Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies: Don’t “Turn it Off” — “Turn it On!”

• John Toenjes
• M. Anthony Reimer

• (Short paper)

  Keywords: Mobile applications, theater, dance, music, installation, augmented reality, LAIT, smartphone, tablet computer, DSL, Unity

  The Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies (LAIT), has been established at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign to investigate possibilities for mobile devices to enhance the dramatic and informational experience of audiences at theatrical events, including dance, theater, music concerts, sports events, and installation. LAIT has a two-fold mission to 1) create a new type of theatrical experience for the 21st century, 2) provide an experimental platform for industries to develop applications for entertainment and informational use. This paper describes a mobile development platform that will enable theatrical producers to rapidly prototype and produce deployable applications that run on services provided either by LAIT or by the end user, without the need to write a custom application for each production. This will provide a cost-effective application solution for individual theater, dance, music, and installation producers. LAIT also intends to provide guidance for aesthetic use of applications within the context of live performance, so that it can enhance or augment that experience, rather than distract or detract from it.

• Full text (PDF)  p. 334-337

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