Musical embrace

Huggard, Amy; Mel, Anushka De; Garner, Jayden; Toprak, Cagdas; Chatham, Alan; Mueller, Florian

doi:10.1145/2493432.2493518

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“…Our analysis [19] revealed a trajectory through the digital play experience, beginning with the entering into Body Interaction DIS 2014, June 21-25, 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada the public zone where the unique pillow-controller piques interest, the finding of co-players in the social zone, the beginning of play in the personal zone, culminating in focused play in the intimate zone, with players breaking the social norm of hugging a stranger.…”

Section: Proxemics In Gamesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…By engaging with such a process, we believe we are able to paint a picture of proxemics and digital play that is abstract in nature yet close to design practice. The first game that we investigate is Musical Embrace [18][19][20], a two-player game that benefits from being played in front of an audience. It engages primarily with the intimate zone by motivating players (that are preferably strangers) to hug a shared pillow-like controller together in order to advance in the game (Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this can quickly change into an awkward experience, taking players onto an emotional journey [19]. Moving from the public zone towards the pillow controller to enter the intimate zone is only part of the emotional experience.…”

Section: Facilitate Bodily Movement By Supporting the Exploration Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Proxemics play

Mueller

Stellmach

Greenberg

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Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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Digital games are increasingly profiting from sensing technologies. However, their focus is mostly on sensing limb movements. We propose that sensing capabilities could also be used to engage players with proxemics: the interpersonal distance between players. We further add that wireless networks offer complementary distance zones for designers, offering novel design resources for digital play. We use our own as well as other games to articulate a set of strategies on how designers can utilize both proxemics and the new wireless proxemics to facilitate novel play experiences. Ultimately, with our work, we aim to expand the range of digital play.

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“…Benford and colleagues [2] argue there is value to be had from such experiences, whether through entertaining or enlightening users, or creating opportunities for social bonding. Building on this line of research, work in the area of games has explored physical or social forms of discomfort [8,10,17]; alongside psychological forms of discomfort caused by horror games [14,27,28]. There have also been some initial steps towards exploring emotional discomfort and when this may lead to positive or negative player experience [22].…”

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"Horror, guilt and shame" -- Uncomfortable Experiences in Digital Games

Gowler

Iacovides

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Gameplay frequently involves a combination of positive and negative emotions, where there is increasing interest in how to design for more complex forms of player experience. However, despite the risk that some of these experiences may be uncomfortable, there has been little empirical investigation into how discomfort manifests during play and its impact on engagement. We conducted a qualitative investigation using an online survey (N=95), that focused on uncomfortable interactions across three games: Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 4 and Papers, Please. The findings suggest games create discomfort in a variety of ways; through providing high-pressure environments with uncertain outcomes and difficult decisions to make, to the experience of loss and exposing players to disturbing themes. However, while excessive discomfort can jeopardize player engagement, the findings also indicate that discomfort can provide another facet to gameplay, leading to richer forms of experience and stimulating wider reflections on societal issues and concerns.

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“…Considering the use of play as a method for design, the group discussed the way in which play lowers the stakes and provides a social frame that permits doing "the embarrassing." This was also a design quality that the group at the RMIT was exploring at the time (see, e.g., Huggard et al, 2013).…”

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2016

Human Technology

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal publishing innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges within human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology, published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, is distributed without a charge online. ISSN: 1795-6889 www.humantechnology.jyu.fi Volume 12(2), November 2016, 103-104 103From the Publisher CHANGE IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY'S PUBLISHER: CONTINUED FOCUS ON OPEN ACCESS HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHThe Human Technology journal will begin a new chapter in its publishing life on January 1, 2017. On that date, the responsibility for publishing the journal will transfer to the new Open Science Center at the University of Jyväskylä, an organization currently in development in which one division will oversee the ongoing support of open access publishing at the university. This change is necessitated by the university's decision to close the Agora Center, the interdisciplinary research unit that initiated and supported the journal from its inception. Despite the Agora Center's focus on the phenomena in contemporary society where humans were impacted or facilitated by technology, its international networks of like-minded colleagues, and its commitment to quality interdisciplinary research, the research unit has been deemed unnecessary in the new university structure. As the university's rector indicated in his public announcement in April 2016, it is his belief that this research should be part of the mission of every faculty of the university, and thus the university as a whole. The rector also indicated that the international, open access journal Human Technology was valuable not only to the university but to the scientific community. We are pleased that the current editor in chief, Dr. Pertti Hurme, has agreed to extend his editorship until we bring in a new editor in chief next year. Our long-serving managing editor, Barbara Crawford, M.A., also will continue with the journal. Our international editorial board also will remain active in their work in advancing the mission of the journal. We do not anticipate that the daily operations of the journal will be affected, and, we hope, will be improved by the journal's inclusion in the publications area of the Open Science Center. We are currently negotiating with the administration of the Open Science Center to establish an interdisciplinary publisher's board to maintain and enhance the scientific expertise so essential for a growing journal. We are confident that this will be achieved and the journal can continue to reach new audiences as authors and readers and to continue to advance research in this essential field of human-technology.At this time, I would like to publically acknowledge the long-term expertise and guidance of Dr. Päivi Fadjukoff, currently the director of planning and development for the Agora Center, who has wisely and graciously overseen the role of the publisher in these last 13 years of our jour...

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Musical embrace

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