Collocated social interaction through music: Cooperation and collaboration

Abstract

We want to share the concept of our work-in-progress study that was to observe the user experience of collocated social interaction through music play by using mobile devices. Three players play music by swing their mobile or smart watch to create music. Bumping gesture between users creates highlight part by enhancing the sounds of instruments. Through the user study with children, we extract differences between cooperative inputs and collaborative inputs. To provide more intimate social interaction, collaborative inputs are necessary.