Co-Present and Remote Audience Experiences: Intensity and Cohesion

Geelhoed, Erik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-1186, Singh-Barmi, Kuldip, Biscoe, Ian, Cesar, Pablo, Jansen, Jack, Wang, Chen and Kaiser, Rene (2016) Co-Present and Remote Audience Experiences: Intensity and Cohesion. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2016. pp. 1-34. ISSN 1380-7501

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This article presents the results of modelling audience response to new types of networked theatre plays. As the main contribution of the work we introduce two types of metrics: intensity, relating to how intensively co-present and remote aspects of a performance are rated, and cohesion, relating to how a performance as a whole, the combination of co-present and remote aspects, affects an audience. In particular, we model audience response based on two in the wild evaluations, staged by a low budget theatre company, a streamed and a distributed performance. The streamed performance is similar to NT Live, where a theatre play is delivered to other theatres with an audience. The distributed performance, on the other hand, connects actors in two different theatres (with audiences) creating one single play. The streamed performance was experienced as less intense as well as less cohesive by the remote audience, whilst the distributed performance integrated co-present and remote aspects tightly. Remote aspects of the distributed performance were still experienced as less intense, but the performance as a whole was highly cohesive. Apart from the identification of these two new metrics (intensity and cohesion), based on our experiences we argue that an innovative way of bundling relevant emerging technologies is needed to give a voice to the, as yet silent, remote audience.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: 10.1007/s11042-016-3879-z
ISSN: 1380-7501
Subjects: Research > AIR
Computer Science, Information & General Works
Research > AIR > Graduate School
Performance > Management & Production
Philosophy & Psychology
Research
Social Sciences
Courses by Department: Academy of Music & Theatre Arts
Depositing User: Kuldip Singh-Barmi
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2017 09:59
Last Modified: 08 Aug 2024 08:28
URI: https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/1855
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