Physical interfaces for tabletop games

Leitner, Jakob; Haller, Michael; Yun, Katherine; Woo, William; Sugimoto, Maki; İnami, Masahiko; Cheok, Adrian David; Been-Lirn, H. D.

doi:10.1145/1658866.1658880

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“…Examples of studies of these kinds of hybrid tabletop gaming can be found in [16], [17] and [18]. Few studies explore how the different affordances of tangible or multi-touch interface elements affect interaction and collaboration.…”

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Exploring How Tangible Tools Enable Collaboration in a Multi-touch Tabletop Game

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Doering

et al. 2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract. Digital tabletop surfaces afford multiple user interaction and collaboration. Hybrid tabletops that include both tangible and multi-touch elements are increasingly being deployed in public settings (e.g. Microsoft Surface, reacTable). Designers need to understand how the different characteristics of tangible and multi-touch interface elements affect collaborative activity on tabletops. In this paper, we report on a mixed methods exploratory study of a collaborative tabletop game about sustainable development. We explore the effects of tangible and multi-touch tools on collaborative activity. Forty-five participants, in trios, played the game using both versions of the tools. Our analysis includes quantitative performance measures, qualitative themes and behavioral measures. Findings suggest that both tangible and multi-touch tools enabled effective tool use and that collaborative activity was more influenced by group dynamics than tool modality. However, we observed that the physicality of the tangible tools facilitated individual ownership and announcement of tool use, which in turn supported group and tool awareness.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring How Tangible Tools Enable Collaboration in a Multi-touch Tabletop Game

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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“…Various construction kits have been proposed for applications like Computer Aided Design (CAD) [2], as educational toolkits [22], and for tabletop gaming [16]. Most technical research in this area has investigated sensing techniques to detect how the user interacts with the blocks [2,12,3].…”

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Kinetic Blocks

Schoessler

Windham

Leithinger

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software &Amp; Technology

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Pin-based shape displays not only give physical form to digital information, they have the inherent ability to accurately move and manipulate objects placed on top of them. In this paper we focus on such object manipulation: we present ideas and techniques that use the underlying shape change to give kinetic ability to otherwise inanimate objects. First, we describe the shape display's ability to assemble, disassemble, and reassemble structures from simple passive building blocks through stacking, scaffolding, and catapulting. A technical evaluation demonstrates the reliability of the presented techniques. Second, we introduce special kinematic blocks that are actuated and sensed through the underlying pins. These blocks translate vertical pin movements into other degrees of freedom like rotation or horizontal movement. This interplay of the shape display with objects on its surface allows us to render otherwise inaccessible forms, like overhangs, and enables richer input and output.

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“…Large horizontal interactive surfaces (or tabletop devices) are emerging as an ideal environment for these innovative hybrid games [6], [9]. Traditionally, conventional tables are popular spaces for social board-games due to their physical affordances that engage face-to-face interaction [17].…”

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Innovative interfaces for Serious Games

Marco¹,

Cerezo²,

Baldassarri³

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Game-Based Learning

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The tangible interaction approach has, in recent years, become a promising alternative to tactile interaction for very young children. Children playing with Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) are motivated by the novel and digital environment and benefit from the same values as conventional physical playing. Young children build their mental image of the world through action and motor responses and, with physical handling, they become conscious of reality. Within TUIs, digitally augmented surfaces (interactive blackboards and tabletops) are becoming popular in educative environments. Tabletop devices are horizontal surfaces capable of supporting interaction and image feedback on their surface, and are especially interesting for reinforcing face-to-face social relations and group activities. However, most of current children-oriented applications for tabletops are based on tactile interaction, thus losing the benefits of physical playing. The paper describes our experiences building tangible tabletops, and designing tangible games and toys. In particular, we present NIKVision, a tabletop device intended to give leisure and fun while reinforcing physical manipulation and colocated gaming for 3-6 year old children. Several hybrid (physical/digital) games based on the manipulation of passive and active toys have been developed for NIKVision. From our experience several useful lessons can be extracted. Among them, the necessity of bridging the gap between designers and developers making it easier the prototyping of tabletop games stands out. To tackle this difficulty a toolkit for the prototyping of tabletop games called ToyVision has been created. The toolkit supports designers to fully explore the physical feasibilities of the manipulation of physical playing pieces, while minimizing the technical difficulties of implementing tabletop games based on physical manipulation. This way, NIKVision and ToyVision are becoming powerful tools to develop innovative serious games.

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Physical interfaces for tabletop games

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Exploring How Tangible Tools Enable Collaboration in a Multi-touch Tabletop Game

Exploring How Tangible Tools Enable Collaboration in a Multi-touch Tabletop Game

Kinetic Blocks

Innovative interfaces for Serious Games

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