PANORAMA - Explorations in the Aesthetics of Social Awareness

In this paper we reflect on our experiences in developing PANORAMA, a playful application meant to promote and support social awareness in a work environment, through art-inspired visualisations of social processes and personal contributions. With respect to the design of PANORAMA, we found common notions of visual semiotics helpful in determining the overall composition of the screen layout. More in general, however, the development of PANORAMA proved to be an exercise in interaction aesthetics, which as we will argue in this paper may greatly benefit from common notions in interactive video game play. In this paper we will only briefly discuss technical and deployment issues, since our main contribution here is to establish the relation between the aesthetics of interaction and game play.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: GAMEON
• Authors: Anton Eliëns, Dhaval Vyas
• Keywords: Common Notions, Game Play, GAMEON 2007, Modeling And Simulation, Video Game Play