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Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller
Orkhestra - On the design of interactive media architecture for public environments
In Extended Abstracts of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI'14. Helsinki, Finland, October 26-30, 2014.

We present OrkheÌstra, an interdisciplinary project set out as a collaboration between architects, computer scientists, media facÌ§ade designers and an LED manufacturer to find novel ways of seamlessly integrating architectural forms and animated media. Our research interest is based on the circumstance that architects and designers might not always be able to prototype even early instantiations of interactive media architecture in a timely way, and explore the design opportunities that these systems provide, because till today methods and tools in this domain are hardly available and they still demand very high technical expertise. To address these issues we created this installation using custom made prototyping tools that help to co-design and pre-test interactive media facÌ§ade installations in conjunction with potential users in their environment.