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Abstract

Systems that detect the unaugmented human body allow players to interact without using a physical controller. But how is interaction altered by the absence of a physical input device? What is the impact on game performance, on a player's expectation of their ability to control the game, and on their game experience? In this study, we investigate these issues in the context of a table tennis video game.

The results show that the impact of holding a physical controller, or indeed of the fidelity of that controller, does not appear in simple measures of performance. Rather, the difference between controllers is a function of the responsiveness of the game being controlled, as well as other factors to do with expectations, real world game experience and social context.


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ACM DL Author-ize service Getting sidetracked: display design and occasioning photo-talk with the photohelix
Otmar Hilliges, David Stanley Kirk / CHI '09
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI), 2009

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Bibtex

@inproceedings{Hilliges:2009:GSD:1518701.1518967, author = {Hilliges, Otmar and Kirk, David Stanley}, title = {Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-talk with the Photohelix}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, series = {CHI '09}, year = {2009}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1733--1736}, numpages = {4}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518967}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518967}, acmid = {1518967}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {photo-talk, photoware, randomness, sidetracking, tabletop}, }