Move, Beam, and Check! Imagineering Tangible Optical Chess on An Interactive Tabletop Display

Wu, Andy; Joyner, David; Yi-Luen, Ellen

doi:10.1145/1902593.1902599

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“…Games that are based on tangible user interfaces and interactive tabletops have often been the focus for investigations, for example STARS [13], Weathergods [1], PINS [8], Inc-reTable [10], Optical Chess [20], Comino [11] or Futura [16]. However, only few have been done for active tangible interaction.…”

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TabletopCars

Dang

André

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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In this paper, we report on the development of the competitive tangible tabletop game TabletopCars, which combines the virtual world with the physical world. We brought together micro scaled radio controlled cars as active tangibles with an interactive tabletop surface to realize the game. Furthermore, we included Microsoft Kinect 1 depth sensing as an interaction mode for embedded and embodied interaction. Our aim was to investigate the possibilities that emerge through the augmentation capabilities of interactive tabletops for creating novel game concepts and the interaction modes that novel input devices facilitate. This work presents TabletopCars as a testbed for embedded and embodied interaction and describes the system in detail. Finally, we report on a preliminary user study where users controlled the active tangible micro scaled cars through hand gestures.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

TabletopCars

Dang

André

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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“…A body of literature explores the opportunities offered by MTIs and TUIs to edutainment and entertainment in various fields, from classroom collaborative learning [12] [40][2] to children's decision making and cooperation support [8], interactive storytelling [13] [14], pervasive games [15] and museum exhibits [16] [17]. While most of these approaches rely on large interactive displays, commercial MTI-TUI games developed for mobile devices are becoming increasingly available [49] [51].…”

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confidence: 99%

GAINE – A portable framework for the development of edutainment applications based on multitouch and tangible interaction

Bottino

Martina

Strada

et al. 2016

Entertainment Computing

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In the last few years, Multitouch and Tangible User Interfaces have emerged as a powerful tool to integrate interactive surfaces and responsive spaces that embody digital information. Besides providing a natural interaction with digital contents, they allow the interaction of multiple users at the same time, thus promoting collaborative activities and information sharing. In particular, these characteristics have opened new exploration possibilities in the edutainment context, as witnessed by the many applications successfully developed in different areas, from children's collaborative learning to interactive storytelling, cultural heritage and medical therapy support. However, due to the availability of different multitouch and tangible interaction technologies and of different target computing platforms, the development and deployment of such applications can be challenging. To this end, in this paper we present GAINE (tanGible Augmented INteraction for Edutainment), a software framework that enables rapid prototyping and development of tangible augmented applications for edutainment purposes. GAINE has two main features. First, it offers developers high-level context specific constructs that significantly reduces the implementation burden. Second, the framework is portable on different operating systems and offers independence from the underlying hardware and tracking technology. In this paper, we also discuss several case studies to show the effectiveness of GAINE in simplifying the development of entertainment and edutainment applications based on multitouch and tangible interaction.

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“…Examples can be found in [10], which describes a game developed for children with cerebral palsy, or in [11], where VR training based on a tabletop game was proved to be a viable adjunct to conventional physical therapy in facilitating motor learning in patients with traumatic brain injuries. Other research showed the capabilities of entertainment and edutainment applications based on tabletop interactive interfaces in various fields, from classroom collaborative learning [12] to interactive storytelling [13] [14], pervasive games [15] and museum exhibits [16] [17].…”

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GAINE - tanGible Augmented INteraction for Edutainment

Bottino¹,

Martina²,

Toosi³

2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

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Interactive tabletops are gaining an increasing interest since they provide a more natural interaction with digital contents and allow the interaction of multiple users at a time promoting face-to-face collaboration, information sharing and the raise of social experiences. Given the potentialities offered by these devices, several entertainment-edutainment applications based on interactive tabletops have been successfully developed in different areas, from medical therapy support to children's collaborative learning, interactive storytelling and cultural heritage. However, the development of such applications often requires complex technical and implementation skills. Taking this into consideration, in this paper we present GAINE (tanGible Augmented INteraction for Edutainment), a software framework aimed at the rapid prototyping and development of interactive tabletop games. GAINE offers developers context specific high-level constructs and a simple scripting language that simplifies the implementation task. The framework is portable on different operating systems and offers independence from the underlying hardware. Two practical case studies are thoroughly discussed to show how GAINE can simplify the development of interactive tabletop applications in the entertainment and edutainment contexts.

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Move, Beam, and Check! Imagineering Tangible Optical Chess on An Interactive Tabletop Display

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

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GAINE – A portable framework for the development of edutainment applications based on multitouch and tangible interaction

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