Gaming and the limits of digital embodiment

Farrow, Robert; Iacovides, Ioanna

doi:10.1007/s13347-013-0111-1

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“…The use of avatars in virtual realities and online gaming has received a lot of attention in recent years; debates rage about whether one can have embodied, immersive and/or engaged experienced through avatars (e.g. Calleja 2011;Ducheneaut et al 2006;Farrow and Iacovides 2014;McMahan 2003). Often in studies of avatars in multi-player online gaming, people report feeling a sense of community and shared experiences as a we with those that they play with (e.g.…”

Section: Avatarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling togetherness online: a phenomenological sketch of online communal experiences

Osler

2019

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The internet provides us with a multitude of ways of interacting with one another. In discussions about how technological innovations impact and shape our interpersonal interactions, there is a tendency to assume that encountering people online is essentially different to encountering people offline. Yet, individuals report feeling a sense of togetherness with one another online that echoes offline descriptions. I consider how we can understand people's experiences of being together with others online, at least in certain instances, as arising out of their feeling together as a we. Using Walther's phenomenological framework of communality, I explore whether the following might take place online: (i) habitual communal experiences and (ii) actual we-experiences. While neither of these sketches amount to a full account of how we find ourselves with others online, I suggest that they reveal how insights from the phenomenology of sociality can be used to deepen our understanding of online communality. What is more, I suggest that the strength of this approach is that in some cases it allows us to circumvent tricky questions about embodiment online and, in others, prompts us to ask to what extent a fully-embodied interaction is really required for we-experiences.

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Section: Avatarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling togetherness online: a phenomenological sketch of online communal experiences

Osler

2019

Phenom Cogn Sci

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“…The installation enables children to interact with Chinese paintings, and offers an opportunity to creatively explore this art tradition through whole-body movement. As Farrow and Iacovides (2013) state, this "move towards 'whole-body' interactive approaches appears to assume that more 'embodied' interactions will lead to more engaging and immersive … experiences" (p.3). There is a pressing need, therefore, for more research to adopt a critical analytical focus on the body itself during the interaction in order to understand how (rather than simply if) physical interaction contributes to meaning making.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Whole-Body Interaction and Design for Museums

Price¹,

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Jewitt³

2015

Interact. Comput.

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Museums increasingly use digital technology to enhance exhibition experiences for families, notably in relation to physically mediated installations for young children through Natural User Interfaces. Yet little is known about how families and children engage with such installations and the kinds of interactive experiences they engender in museum spaces. This paper addresses a pressing need for research to adopt an analytical focus on the body during such digitally mediated interactions in order to understand how such bodily interaction contributes to meaning making in the museum context. It reports an observation study of families and children interacting with an interactive Kinect-based installation in a museum exhibit on rareChinese paintings. The study shows how the installation design engenders particular forms of bodily interaction, collaboration and meaning making. It also contributes design insights into whole body interaction installations in museums and public spaces. Author KeywordsHuman computer interaction, Natural User Interface, Whole-body Interaction, User studies, Children, Interactive learning environments, Novel interaction devices Research Highlights Examining the design of Whole Body Interaction (WBI) for museum engagement  Observation study of families and children engaged in WBI in a art based museum installation  Making meaning through bodily engagement eliciting cause and effect relationships  Different forms of collaborative interaction through physically mediated communication  Contributes empirically grounded design insights to inform the use and design of WBI exhibits in museums

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“…These works so far demonstrate an emphasis toward the roles of perception and cognition in embodiment: their combined impact on our experience of the real world is considered in the experience of game worlds. Farrow and Iacovides claim that exactly such reasoning is just one step too far (Farrow and Iacovides 2014) and describe three inconsistencies with respect to human embodiment aspects laid out by Merleau-Ponty. Firstly, on a physical level bodies within game worlds cannot conform to real world duality (e.g., tactile and pain), and we do not relate to bodies in virtual worlds in the same way that we do in the real world.…”

Section: Perspectives Within the Humanitiesmentioning

confidence: 98%