P(l)aying (with) Attention: Distracted Reality Versus Augmented Place
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Hybrid Spatial Experiences
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- P(l)aying (with) Attention: Distracted Reality Versus Augmented Place
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Panel: Hybrid Spatial Experiences
Locative media use our coordinates in space as keys into our information, ostensibly to bring that information to us where we need it. Augmented Reality ostensibly augments the reality we are in by overlaying this information on our perceptual field, the better to serve us. But do these technologies really serve to connect us to the places we find ourselves in, or, to the contrary, do they serve to further remove us from them? This paper will discuss the promises and problems of our ever-changing relation to space, mediated and otherwise, and will propose various responses and strategies for addressing them.