Measuring audience response on-line : an evaluation of the portable audience response facility (pARF) Stevens, Catherine, Vincs, Kim and Schubert, Emery 2009, Measuring audience response on-line : an evaluation of the portable audience response facility (pARF), in ICoMCS2 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Music Communication Science, ICoMCS, Sydney, N.S.W., pp. 100-103. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Measuring audience response on-line : an evaluation of the portable audience response facility (pARF) Author(s) Stevens, Catherine Vincs, Kim Schubert, Emery Conference name International Conference on Music Communication Science (2009 : Sydney, New South Wales) Conference location Sydney, New South Wales Conference dates 3-4 December, 2009 Title of proceedings ICoMCS2 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Music Communication Science Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2009 Conference series International Conference on Music Communication Science Start page 100 End page 103 Total pages 4 Publisher ICoMCS Place of publication Sydney, N.S.W. Summary If it is the case that artists and art explore organization of the brain (Zeki & Lamb, 1994), then the investigation of response to artistic performance holds promise as a window to perceptual and cognitive processes. The portable Audience Response Facility (pARF) is an instrument for recording real‐time audience response (Stevens et al. 2009). Twenty, handheld, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) collect responses on customizable skin interfaces. The pARF server transmits the customizable options, synchronizes devices and collects data for export. In this paper we report ratings of the usability of the pARF that were collected after 37 participants had used it to continuously rate engagement along a single dimension while a female dance artist gave two performances of a short solo contemporary dance work. The motion of the dancer was also captured as she performed the piece but only usability rating data are reported here. Ratings indicate that the cognitive load imposed by continuously rating engagement while watching a dance performance was manageable and the pARF was easy to use. An extended familiarization phase may further reduce dual task demand. ISBN 9781741082036 Language eng Field of Research 190403 Dance Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2009, ICoMCS Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30021434 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 17 Dec 2009, 14:58:50 EST Fri, 18 Dec 2009, 11:41:07 EST Wed, 13 Jan 2010, 11:23:41 EST Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 13:02:43 EST Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 14:38:56 EST Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 14:40:04 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 17:30:54 EST Wed, 22 Jan 2014, 12:45:35 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 10:00:16 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 680 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 17 Dec 2009, 14:58:48 EST by Kim Barbour