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Concepts of Multi-artifact Systems in Artifact Ecologies

Authors:
Henrik Sørensen
Jesper Kjeldskov

Keywords: artifact ecology, multi-artifact, music system

Abstract:
The artifact ecologies emerging from the increasing number of interactive digital artifacts, capable of communicating with each other, have created a situation where software applications no longer need to be limited by the physical boundaries of a single artifact. In order to take advantage of the full potential of this situation, we first need to establish a common understanding of the interaction that crosses physical artifact boundaries. Eventually, this will help us understand and design multi-artifact systems that are more than the sum of its individual parts. In this paper, we analyze two multi-artifact systems from our prior work within the domain of music consumption and identify four concepts of multi-artifact interaction: Plasticity, migration, complementarity, and multi-user. We discuss the concepts in order to relate them to an artifact ecology thinking and identify implications for future work.

Pages: 141 to 146

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-325-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014