massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework

Nathan Weitzner, Jason Freeman, Stephen Garrett, and Yan-Ling Chen

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Keywords: audience participation, network music, smartphone, performance, mobile
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178449 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

massMobile is a client-server system for mass audience participation in live performances using smartphones. It was designed to flexibly adapt to a variety of participatory performance needs and to a variety of performance venues. It allows for real time bi-directional communication between performers and audiences utilizing existing wireless 3G, 4G, or WiFi networks. In this paper, we discuss the goals, design, and implementation of the framework, and we describe several projects realized with massMobile.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Weitzner2012,
 abstract = {massMobile is a client-server system for mass audience participation in live performances using smartphones. It was designed to flexibly adapt to a variety of participatory performance needs and to a variety of performance venues. It allows for real time bi-directional communication between performers and audiences utilizing existing wireless 3G, 4G, or WiFi networks. In this paper, we discuss the goals, design, and implementation of the framework, and we describe several projects realized with massMobile.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {Nathan Weitzner and Jason Freeman and Stephen Garrett and Yan-Ling Chen},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178449},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {audience participation, network music, smartphone, performance, mobile},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_128.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}