Dialog with a

Controller
Projects, Pilot-Testing, & Pedagogy

An Encounter w/ Food
carnival
eating
contest
pilot

free food
v 1.0
free
food
v 2.0

Additional Questions
What place could creating interactive
installations have in your classroom?

Controllers mediate musical

experience?(Birringer,

2005; Tobias, in Press)

Pilot-testing as a tool for revision

and dialogue?(Birringer, 2005; Hk, Sengers, & Andersson, 2003;
Morrison, Mitchell, & Brereton, 2007)

Controllers?
Installation
Controllers
How do installation controllers
mediate the musical experience?

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Installations

Context and potential

(Birringer, 2005)

Creator as influencer

(Hk, Sengers, & Andersson, 2003)

Open system

Scratch & Video controller

(Morrison, Mitchell, & Brereton, 2007)

Design-Based Project
!

What kind of self-explanatory,

interactive installation controller
can you create using Scratch?

Useable systems are:(Nielsen,

- easy to learn and remember
- forgiving of errors
- pleasant to use

1993)

Pilot-Testing

Iterative design / design cycles

(Martinez &

Stager, 2008)

Dialogue between creators, users, and

creation (Birringer, 2005)

initial
design

test

revise

design

iteration

install

shared
work

Residual Questions

Other pedagogical implications

- Rationale (Jenkins et al)
- Group work (Barron & Darling-Hammond,
- Role of facilitator

2008)

How do we assess/evaluate installations?

- Unobtrusive (Martinez & Stager, 2013)
- Arts + HCI hybrid approach (Hk, Sengers,
- Multidimensional (Barron & Darling-Hammond, 2008)

When is pilot-testing over?

& Anderson, 2003)