Jogging over a distance between Europe and Australia

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

“…Combined with the distribution this becomes Sports over a Distance, a category of systems that attempt to break away from social isolation and sedentary behavior that seems to be supported by traditional digital games [175]. Such systems include technological ways to provide augmented sports, such as joint jogging [3,170], kicking/throwing a ball against a wall [163], (kick) boxing [172], and table tennis [175]. Some systems also provide ways for haptic feedback, such as a game of tug-of-war [19] or arm wrestling 1 .…”

“…Some of these activity-trackers might largely adhere to our description of interactive play systems and future systems might even fall within the domain. Nonetheless, they are forming a quite different area of research as many only provide 'feedback' before or afterwards [170], are less playful, and do not contain the earlier mentioned gradual ways of input and output. 1 Immersive environments (stimulating play) around a narrative can be seen as some of the first systems [68], including the well known Kidsroom [31] 2 Stach et al, based on analyses of 107 active games, proposed 6 forms of input: gesture, stance, point, power, continuous control (including position), and tap.…”

“…In Jogging over a Distance players wear a headset, and either a waist pouch with a mini-computer and a GPS device [176], or a mobile phone and a heart rate monitor [170], to provide a social joint jogging experience over a distance.…”

“…Depending on the target group and context, the duration of an interview is often kept short, especially when an informal interview is done at the point that players are about to leave after playing for some time [219], while after more extensive planned tests it can take up to several hours [170]. Group discussions/interviews can also be done with multiple (child) players after a session [140,234].…”

“…Such a theory is 'descriptive rather than predictive' [106, p642]. Such a method was used, for instance, in analyses of joggin-over-a-distance with regard to social experience to describe themes that could help to build guidelines [170]. A similar coding process was used to describe dominant themes in an interactive sport skill training with the Bouncer system [108].…”