Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets

Burnett, Daniel J.; Coulton, Paul; Lewis, Adam M.

doi:10.1145/2336727.2336735

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“…2 One of the reasons for this renaissance is the ubiquitous play that mobile devices allow. Like the larger screens, these games can also make use of tangible interaction with objects, for instance, using active [55] or passive [10] tags. Physical pawns for playing board games on tablet PCs have recently been commercialized by board game companies, for example, under the names of iPieces 3 and ePawn.…”

Section: Mobile Interactive Surfacesmentioning

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From interactive surfaces to interactive game pieces in hybrid board games

Mora

Loreto

Divitini

2016

AIS

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Recent advances in interactive surfaces and Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) have created new opportunities for hybrid board games that aim at mixing the social affordances of traditional board games with the interactivity of video games. Within this area of research, we propose an approach centered on the concepts of tokens, constraints, spatial expressions, and interaction events. Rather than using interactive surfaces as the primary interaction medium, our approach relies on physical manipulation of interactive, computer-augmented game pieces on conventional surfaces. The design of our approach has been informed by a literature review that took into account 27 hybrid board games from both academia and industry. This review allowed us to identify technology strands used to implement interactive board games and discuss the pros and cons of the different alternatives in the design space. After describing our approach, we report how it was applied to the design and development of a game for training emergency workers. Building on feedback from user evaluations and our experience with the development, we outline design opportunities and challenges of the approach.

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Section: Mobile Interactive Surfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From interactive surfaces to interactive game pieces in hybrid board games

Mora

Loreto

Divitini

2016

AIS

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“…In particular, we consider the objects for use within a iPad game we have dubbed Pong+ (Burnett, Coulton, and Lewis 2012). The game is played with the iPad horizontal and using physical game objects as 'mallets', as you would in the physical game of Air Hockey, but with a virtual game 'puck' as might be seen in the Atari classic Pong.…”

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“…Placing this particular implementation into context it can be regarded as a fully embodied dynamic spatial tangible interface (Ullmer and Ishii 2000). The research associated with this game not only highlighted the benefits of the physical affordances of the mallets over an alternate purely virtual implementation it also highlighted that the number, size and spacing of the touch points that can be tracked simultaneously within such a game is highly device dependent (Burnett et al 2012). This is because no standard exists that specifies these parameters for either phones or tablets which means that designers may have to invest considerable time evaluating the capabilities of many devices if they are aiming for cross platform compatibility of their game objects.…”

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Game Design in an Internet of Things

Coulton

Burnett

Gradinar

et al. 2014

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Whilst no consensus yet exists on how the Internet of Things will be realised, a global infrastructure of networked physical objects that are readable, recognizable, locatable, addressable and controllable is undoubtedly a compelling vision. Although many implementations of the Internet of Things have presented these objects in a largely ambient sensing role, or providing some form of remote access/control, in this paper we consider the emerging convergence between games and the Internet of Things. This can be seen in a growing number of games that use objects as physical game pieces to enhance the players’ interaction with virtual games. These hybrid physical/digital objects present game designers with number of interesting challenges as they i) blur the boundaries between toys and games; ii) provide opportunities for freeform physical play outside the virtual game; and iii) create new requirements for interaction design, in that they utilise design techniques from both product design and computer interface design. Whilst in the past the manufacturing costs of such game objects would preclude their use within games from small independent games developers, the advent of low cost 3D printing and open software and hardware platforms, which are the enablers of the Internet of Things, means this is no longer the case. However, in order to maximise this opportunity game designers will need to develop new approaches to the design of their games and in this paper we highlight the design sensibilities required if they are to combine the digital and physical affordances within the design of such objects to produce good player experiences.

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“…A TUI also provides a physical form that represents the information in both a graphical and a tactile sense. Moreover, a TUI has several advantages over graphical user interfaces (GUI) in terms of the controllability such as the performance time or the error rate (Burnett et al, 2012;Wulf, 2007). A TUI is more flexible and capable than a GUI that is limited to indirect control.…”

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Touchable area: An empirical study on design approach considering perception size and touch input behavior

Jung

2015

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

From interactive surfaces to interactive game pieces in hybrid board games

From interactive surfaces to interactive game pieces in hybrid board games

Game Design in an Internet of Things

Touchable area: An empirical study on design approach considering perception size and touch input behavior

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