Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild
Direct touch between people is a key element of social behaviour. Recently a number of researchers have explored games which sense aspects of such interpersonal touch to control interaction with a multiplayer computer game. In this paper, we describe a long term, in-the-wild study of a two-player ar...
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| description | Direct touch between people is a key element of social behaviour. Recently a number of researchers have explored games which sense aspects of such interpersonal touch to control interaction with a multiplayer computer game. In this paper, we describe a long term, in-the-wild study of a two-player arcade game which is controlled by gentle touching between the body parts of two players. We ran the game in a public videogame arcade for a year, and present a thematic analysis of 27 hours of gameplay session videos, organized under three top level themes: control of the system, interpersonal interaction within the game, and social interaction around the game. In addition, we provide a quantitative analysis of observed demographic differences in interpersonal touch behaviour. Finally, we use these results to present four design recommendations for use of interpersonal touch in games. |
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| spelling | nottingham-447982020-05-04T18:49:26Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44798/ Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild Marshall, Joe Tennent, Paul Direct touch between people is a key element of social behaviour. Recently a number of researchers have explored games which sense aspects of such interpersonal touch to control interaction with a multiplayer computer game. In this paper, we describe a long term, in-the-wild study of a two-player arcade game which is controlled by gentle touching between the body parts of two players. We ran the game in a public videogame arcade for a year, and present a thematic analysis of 27 hours of gameplay session videos, organized under three top level themes: control of the system, interpersonal interaction within the game, and social interaction around the game. In addition, we provide a quantitative analysis of observed demographic differences in interpersonal touch behaviour. Finally, we use these results to present four design recommendations for use of interpersonal touch in games. 2017-06-10 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Marshall, Joe and Tennent, Paul (2017) Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild. In: 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17), 10-14 June 2017, Edinburgh, UK. Interpersonal touch; game; in the wild; arcade http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3064663.3064727 10.1145/3064663.3064727 10.1145/3064663.3064727 10.1145/3064663.3064727 |
| spellingShingle | Interpersonal touch; game; in the wild; arcade Marshall, Joe Tennent, Paul Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title | Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title_full | Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title_fullStr | Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title_full_unstemmed | Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title_short | Touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| title_sort | touchomatic: interpersonal touch gaming in the wild |
| topic | Interpersonal touch; game; in the wild; arcade |
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