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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.
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How to well-design semantical interaction - which users actually care??
2025-02-06
How can a semantic interaction ask something meaningful of a participant without making them reluctant to engage?
Many exhibition interactions depend on bodily movement or a simple gesture. Asking someone to compose text or speak within a specific context is harder. They may hesitate, refuse, or enter something arbitrary. The work cannot assume that every visitor arrives ready to contribute an articulate response.
One approach is to make that hesitation part of the interaction. Inactivity, a face or a small involuntary response can carry the exchange forward. Another is to reconsider the introduction: an immediate estranging event, a gradual invitation that lets someone settle in, or a strong narrative context established before their first action.
A third approach transforms the scale of the input. A small, low-information action can produce an unexpectedly rich semantic response. Input A becomes output AAAAAAAA. That disproportion can be funny, Dadaist or disorienting. A murmur, for instance, could cause a voice interface to respond with extravagant conviction.
In a conventional language-model interface, the user supplies the context and leads the conversation. Here the model could lead, treating a minimal or passive response as enough to continue. I also noted the way a queue may raise a visitor’s expectations and investment, although waiting is not itself the artistic experience.
The particular scenario I am considering begins with rest. Someone lies down on a bed without expecting an interaction. The system addresses them, and their uncertain response becomes part of the exchange. The introduction, the amplification of a small vocal input and the inclusion of passivity all belong to the same design problem.
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Jeanyoon Choi
Jeanyoon Choi (b. 1999) is a Korean computational artist and researcher. He designs and researches multi-device web artworks that reflect the complexity of contemporary socio-technological systems, including AI, algorithmic culture, and economic structures. By interconnecting mobile devices and screens, these artworks create provocatively interactive environments. To develop their conceptual foundations, he draws on art, philosophy, and his scientific background, then uses software engineering and design to translate these ideas into interactive experiences.
He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University and an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD candidate at KAIST's Experience Design Lab (XD Lab). He has also taught Computational Design Practices in the Interaction Design Department at K-Arts (Korea National University of Arts). His work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Istanbul Digital Arts Festival, IKLECTIK London, Centre Culturel Coréen, and KAIST Art Museum. His papers have been published in the proceedings of ACM DIS and in the Leonardo journal (MIT Press), and he has served as an academic reviewer for ACM TEI, NeurIPS Creative AI, and Digital Creativity.
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