eprintid: 10059935 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/05/99/35 datestamp: 2018-10-30 12:38:57 lastmod: 2021-10-21 23:27:29 status_changed: 2018-10-30 12:38:57 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Kaninsky, M creators_name: Gallacher, S creators_name: Rogers, Y title: Confronting people's fears about bats: Combining multimodal and environmentally sensed data to promote curiosity and discovery ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 keywords: Tangible interface; Internet of Things (IoT); Curiosity; Fear confrontation; Physical visualisation; Playful technology note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Bats are often disliked and feared by people. How might we enable the general public to learn more about the true nature of these creatures, and even to like them? In this paper, we introduce PlayBat, a physical public display, which combines a multi-modal interface, a constrained narrative structure and real-time IoT environmentally sensed bat call data. The aim of our research is to investigate whether promoting curiosity and discovery through enabling people to explore real-life data, answer quiz-like questions and engage with a multi-modal interface, is effective at engaging people and confronting their fears. We report on the design process and implementation of PlayBat, and the findings from an in-the-wild study. We discuss how tapping into multiple senses can draw people in, evoke curiosity and even change their views. date: 2018 date_type: published publisher: ACM official_url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196783 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1591449 doi: 10.1145/3196709.3196783 isbn_13: 9781450351980 lyricists_name: Rogers, Yvonne lyricists_id: YROGE95 actors_name: Novi, Maya actors_id: MNOVI52 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference place_of_pub: New York, NY, USA pagerange: 931-944 event_title: 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 09 - 13 June 2018, Hong Kong, China book_title: DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference citation: Kaninsky, M; Gallacher, S; Rogers, Y; (2018) Confronting people's fears about bats: Combining multimodal and environmentally sensed data to promote curiosity and discovery. In: DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (pp. pp. 931-944). ACM: New York, NY, USA. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10059935/9/Rogers_Confronting%20people%27s%20fears%20about%20bats_Kaninsky%20et%20al%202018%20accepted%20version.pdf