Embodied Interaction In Play

Embodied Interaction

We explore embodied interaction as a stance towards game design in order to create new play experiences, and to gain insights on how to use physical and social context qualities as a material for digital play. We aim at using games to deliberately create social couplings between persons, in order to investigate the interrelation between context factors, (social) interaction and play. In that regard, the game itself acts as a mediatory artifact around which this coupling is formed.

Goals

Incorporating a holistic view on gaming as a collaborative practice within social and physical contextual influences
Designing with contextual characteristics by exploring different embodied representations of these influencing factors to enrich the experience and create new forms of play
Understanding games and game design as a research method for studying social and physical context influences (e.g., using games as critical designs)

Research Activities

Gaze-based Onlooker Integration: Within this project we explored an interaction concept that uses the gaze of a second observing person during a co-located gaming situation as an input modality to assist the player. We investigated the effects of different embodied forms of gaze-based onlooker integration and their influence on the player’s and the onlooker’s experience. Our research goal was to address the “in-between” design space of being an active player or a passive spectator and foster co-located game collaboration with.

EyeCo investigates the effects of a shared gaze visualization on social presence in an online cooperative game. We explored how the shared gaze visualization changes how players work together and form collaborative strategies based on different combinations of gaze interaction and verbal communication. Our approach aims at fostering social couplings in remote collaborative gaming and investigates their potential to increase the connectedness between players.

CarTeam is a collaborative multiplayer game that takes advantage of physical structures and affordances of existing tangible elements in the car (e.g., handles) and uses them as inputs for in-car gaming. By augmenting these elements with computational properties, we aim at transforming them into input modalities for collaborative and co-located gaming.

Speedtris is a design that explores the possibilities of using a game as a mediatory artifact to create social couplings as a persuasive means to stop a car driver from speeding. The game translates car data (i.e., speed) into in-game interventions and gameplay changes towards bringing the front-seat passenger to verbally influence the driver to stick to the speed limit. Within a laboratory setup we explored different levels of in-game interventions as a leverage point for the persuasive game designs.

Contact: Bernhard Maurer

Related Publications

K. Slegers, B. Maurer, L. Bleumers, A. Krischkowsky, and M. Blythe, "Game-based HCI Methods: Workshop on Playfully Engaging Users in Design," in CHI'16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016, pp. 3484-3491.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Slegers_etal2016,
author="Slegers, Karin
and Maurer, Bernhard
and Bleumers, Lizzy
and Krischkowsky, Alina
and Blythe, Mark",
title="Game-based HCI Methods: Workshop on Playfully Engaging Users in Design",
booktitle="CHI{'}16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
year="2016",
pages="3484--3491",
doi="10.1145/2851581.2856476",
opturl="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856476"
}

M. Lankes, B. Maurer, and B. Stiglbauer, "An Eye for an Eye: Gaze Input in Competitive Online Games and Its Effects on Social Presence," in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2016, p. 17:1--17:9.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Lankes_etal2016,
author="Lankes, Michael
and Maurer, Bernhard
and Stiglbauer, Barbara",
title="An Eye for an Eye: Gaze Input in Competitive Online Games and Its Effects on Social Presence",
booktitle="Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology",
year="2016",
pages="17:1--17:9",
doi="10.1145/3001773.3001774",
opturl="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3001773.3001774"
}

B. Maurer, M. Lankes, B. Stiglbauer, and M. Tscheligi, "EyeCo: Effects of Shared Gaze on Social Presence in an Online Cooperative Game," in Entertainment Computing -- ICEC 2016: 15th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 28-30, 2016, Proceedings, 2016, pp. 102-114.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer_etal2016_2,
author="Maurer, Bernhard
and Lankes, Michael
and Stiglbauer, Barbara
and Tscheligi, Manfred",
title="EyeCo: Effects of Shared Gaze on Social Presence in an Online Cooperative Game",
booktitle="Entertainment Computing -- ICEC 2016: 15th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 28-30, 2016, Proceedings",
year="2016",
pages="102--114",
isbn="978-3-319-46100-7",
doi="10.1007/978-3-319-46100-7_9",
opturl="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46100-7_9"
}

B. Maurer, "Embodied Interaction in Play: Body-Based and Natural Interaction in Games," in Entertainment Computing and Serious Games, 2016, pp. 378-401.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer2016,
author="Maurer, Bernhard",
title="Embodied Interaction in Play: Body-Based and Natural Interaction in Games",
booktitle="Entertainment Computing and Serious Games",
year="2016",
pages="378--401",
isbn="978-3-319-46152-6",
doi="10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_15",
opturl="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_15"
}

B. Maurer, M. Gärtner, M. Wuchse, A. Meschtscherjakov, and M. Tscheligi, "Utilizing a Digital Game as a Mediatory Artifact for Social Persuasion to Prevent Speeding," in Persuasive Technology, 2016, pp. 199-210.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer_etal2016,
author="Maurer, Bernhard
and G{\"a}rtner, Magdalena
and Wuchse, Martin
and Meschtscherjakov, Alexander
and Tscheligi, Manfred",
title="Utilizing a Digital Game as a Mediatory Artifact for Social Persuasion to Prevent Speeding",
booktitle="Persuasive Technology",
year="2016",
pages="199--210"
}

B. Maurer, I. Aslan, M. Wuchse, K. Neureiter, and M. Tscheligi, "Gaze-Based Onlooker Integration: Exploring the In-Between of Active Player and Passive Spectator in Co-Located Gaming," in Proceedings of the 2nd SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer_etal2015,
author="Maurer, Bernhard
and Aslan, Ilhan
and Wuchse, Martin
and Neureiter, Katja
and Tscheligi, Manfred",
title="Gaze-Based Onlooker Integration: Exploring the In-Between of Active Player and Passive Spectator in Co-Located Gaming",
booktitle="Proceedings of the 2nd SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play",
year="2015",
isbn="978-1-4503-3466-2",
doi="10.1145/2793107.2793126"
}

B. Maurer, A. Baumgartner, I. Aslan, A. Meschtscherjakov, D. Wilfinger, M. Murer, and M. Tscheligi, "CarTeam: The car as a collaborative tangible game controller," in Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2014.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer_etal2014,
author="Maurer, Bernhard
and Baumgartner, Axel
and Aslan, Ilhan
and Meschtscherjakov, Alexander
and Wilfinger, David
and Murer, Martin
and Tscheligi, Manfred",
title="CarTeam: The car as a collaborative tangible game controller",
booktitle="Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction",
year="2014",
opturl="http://www.tei-conf.org/14/program/435.php"
}

B. Maurer, A. Baumgartner, D. Wilfinger, M. Murer, and M. Tscheligi, "The Car as a Game Controller: Enhanced Collaboration through a Game Setting based on Car Data," in Workshop ''Entertainment Technology in Transportation against Frustration, Aggression and Irrationality'' at MobileHCI 2013, 2013.
[Bibtex]

@InProceedings{Maurer_etal2013,
author="Maurer, Bernhard
and Baumgartner, Axel
and Wilfinger, David
and Murer, Martin
and Tscheligi, Manfred",
title="The Car as a Game Controller: Enhanced Collaboration through a Game Setting based on Car Data",
booktitle="Workshop {'}{'}Entertainment Technology in Transportation against Frustration, Aggression and Irrationality{'}{'} at MobileHCI 2013",
year="2013"
}

Embodied Interaction In Play

Embodied Interaction

Research by

Bernhard Maurer

Research Lead

Ilhan Aslan

Research

Martin Murer

Research Assistance

Magdalena Gärtner

Research Assistance

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