Mapping Spatial Mediations, a proposal for classifying new forms of immersive digital mediations
Fabienne Tsaï, François Garnier · 2018
Faced with an avalanche of oddly-assorted objects and technologies presented as so many keys to bring us into the era of immersive communication, we feel the need to reposition content at the center of our thinking. The aim of this article is to propose a scientific approach and a research protocol aimed at specifying and organizing the works that make up the wide range of current proposals for digital immersive experiences, basing ourselves on the perceptions and feelings of users. We consider that technologies are essential means for producing and transmitting content, while providing it with decisive characteristics, but that they must not be seen as the aim of the mediation. Far from us the idea of demonizing technical objects. We simply seek, as philosopher Gilbert Simondon1 urges us, to return them to their rightful place as objects in which "the human gesture fixed and crystallized into functioning structures" reside, and whose role is to be "mediators between nature and humans".