Juicy Haptic Design: Vibrotactile Embellishments Can Improve Player Experience in Games

Singhal, Tanay; Schneider, Oliver

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445463

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“…Player Experience Inventory. The Player Experience Inventory (PXI) was only recently published [1], but has since seen wide adoption [e.g., 26,64,76]. It utilizes Means-End theory to propose that positive PX is dependent on functional and psychosocial consequences.…”

Section: Player Experience Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I’m the leader and I’m going to save the world”: Characterizing Empowering and Disempowering Game Experiences

Vornhagen,

Bennett,

Murphy

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Empowering people through technology is a core concern of HCI, yet little is known about how players experience empowerment or disempowerment through videogames. We surveyed 250 participants about their dis-/empowering videogame experiences, investigating why they felt dis-/empowered, and how these experiences related to core player experience constructs including emotion and basic needs satisfaction. While empowering experiences were often positive, and disempowering experiences often negative, we found meaningful exceptions to this, and a surprising complexity in player accounts. We capture this diversity in seven themes. These range from ”heroic victories” which follow long periods of failure, to positive experiences of disempowerment, which were appreciated for their narrative meaning. By articulating these complex experiences, and relating them to quantitative measures we provide a foundation for understanding of the role of dis-/empowerment in player experience, and highlight avenues for future work. Data and analyses are available at https://osf.io/zhtu8/

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Section: Player Experience Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I’m the leader and I’m going to save the world”: Characterizing Empowering and Disempowering Game Experiences

Vornhagen,

Bennett,

Murphy

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…For example, Pauna et al worked with motion seat feedback in movies, finding physiological signals of positive emotions increased [132]. Singhal and Schneider [133] examined video games, showing that vibrotactile feedback can improve player experience as measured by the Player eXperience Inventory (PXI) questionnaire [134] -specifically increasing measures of appeal, immersion, and meaning, with some moderation by visual effects.…”

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User Experience and Mid-Air Haptics: Applications, Methods, and Challenges

Georgiou

Frier

Schneider

2022

Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Touchless Interfaces

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Mid-air haptic feedback presents exciting new opportunities for useful and delightful interactive systems. However, with these opportunities come several design challenges that vary greatly depending on the application at hand. In this chapter, we reveal these challenges from a user experience perspective. To that end, we first provide a comprehensive literature review covering many of the different applications of the technology. Then, we present 12 design guidelines and make recommendations for effective mid-air haptic interaction designs and implementations. Finally, we suggest an iterative haptic design framework that can be followed to create a quality mid-air haptic experience.

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“…The design of structured vibrotactile information displays was outlined by Brewster and Brown, in their investigation of tactons, or tactile icons [7], a type of haptic icon [14]. Follow-up inquiry looked at effectiveness of information transfer [8], usability considerations such as how large a set could be learned [52], and connection to emotions [57], user experience [30], and player experience in games [47]. This work typically identifies key design parameters like frequency, amplitude, waveform, and careful timing (e.g., duration, number of pulses, rhythm).…”

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TactJam: An End-to-End Prototyping Suite for Collaborative Design of On-Body Vibrotactile Feedback

Wittchen

Spiel

Fruchard

et al. 2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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We present TactJam, an end-to-end suite for creating and sharing low fidelity prototypes of on-body vibrotactile feedback. With Tac-tJam, designers can create, record and share vibrotactile patterns online. This opens up new ways of collaboratively designing vibrotactile patterns both in collocated as well as in remote settings. We evaluate TactJam in a two-part distributed online workshop, exploring the design of on-body tactons. Participants were able to successfully use TactJam to learn about tacton design. We present an overview of mappings between tactons and their associated concepts before comparing the results of tactons created using solely a GUI and tactons created through experimenting with placements directly on the body. Conducting both parts of the workshop separately highlighted the importance of designing directly with bodies: less implicit assumptions were made, and designs were guided by personal experience. We reflect on these results and close on deliberations for the future development of TactJam.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.

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Juicy Haptic Design: Vibrotactile Embellishments Can Improve Player Experience in Games

Abstract: Figure 1: Two of the six Breakout-style game conditions in study 2; haptic feedback is visualized as waveforms underneath.

Cited by 21 publications

References 38 publications

“I’m the leader and I’m going to save the world”: Characterizing Empowering and Disempowering Game Experiences

“I’m the leader and I’m going to save the world”: Characterizing Empowering and Disempowering Game Experiences

User Experience and Mid-Air Haptics: Applications, Methods, and Challenges

TactJam: An End-to-End Prototyping Suite for Collaborative Design of On-Body Vibrotactile Feedback

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