文摘
Currently, human-computer interaction (HCI) is primarily focused on human-centric interactions; however, people experience many nonhuman-centric interactions during the course of a day. Interactions with nature, such as experiencing the sounds of birds or trickling water, can imprint the beauty of nature in our memory. This paper presents an evaluation of such nonhuman-centric and spatial-temporal interactions to observe people’s reaction to the interactions for ecological studies. The system operated 24 h a day, 365 days a year from April 1, 2000 to April 1, 2010 in the northern part of Iriomote Island (24°20′N, 123°55′E) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. In doing so, this study hopes to discover spatial-temporal processes of our imagination mechanism. Such a discovery would help us design a system that leverages the boundary of the real and virtual worlds by engaging a large number of participants to perform a specific Internet-based scientific task without knowing its purpose for ecological studies.