Living Room of the Future : FACT Liverpool
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 262353592
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Liverpool
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- April
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The Living Room of the Future (LRofTF) research project is an experiential physical prototype exploring novel forms of immersive experience by utilising Object Based Media (OBM) to produce media that is personalised, adaptable, dynamic, and responsive. It builds upon previous research on Perceptive Media and Internet of Things Storytelling, which, in contrast to approaches that simply focus on increased visual fidelity to address immersion, proposes subtle and nuanced ways to immerse audiences in a situated context.
This was a collaborative project delivered between Lancaster University, BBC R&D, The Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies (FACT) Liverpool, The British Council, University of Nottingham, and University of York.
To demonstrate this approach to immersion, a full-sized living room was built at FACT Liverpool and populated with a range of mundane off-the-shelf and bespoke Internet of Things (IoT) objects which acted as both sensors collecting real-time data from the audience environment and actuators responding to specific media adaptations to create highly personalised, bi-directional, physically immersive media experiences.
The LRofTF was deployed and made available to the public at large at FACT in Liverpool for an initial planned period from May 4 to May 8, 2018. However, due to the overwhelming response to the experience, the deployment was extended for another 15 days, during which time more than 2,000 people visited the LRofTF. This work led to internationally excellent publications and has since been deployed at the British Council’s Play Festival in Skopje, Macedonia, Living with the Internet of Things at the Tate (8-9 February 2019) and at the V&A London as part of its Digital Design Weekend. The LRofTF has been on permanent display at the Building Research Establishment in Watford since February 2019.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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