Adaptive Media That Feels: A Futures Workshop Exploring Implications of Immersive Systems That Sense, Respond To, and Co-construct Perception

Abstract

As interactive immersive systems can now integrate affective sensing, physiological feedback, and adaptive content creation, they begin to have the capacity not just to react to users in real-time but to co-create the content and resulting experience together. This workshop invites researchers, designers, practitioners, and theorists to explore how this emerging and future media could reshape the boundaries between the seen and the seer. Through futures studies and speculative design methods, we will emerge and enact sociotechnical imaginaries of this ultrapersonalised media that raises new questions around subjectivity, interaction, perception, and knowledge. Participants will collaboratively imagine future systems and enact ustopian archetypal social roles surrounding them to critically engage with and probe future scenarios.