Remote Wavelength: Design and Evaluation of a System for Social Connectedness Through Distributed Tabletop Gameplay

Mills, Chelsea; Geiskkovitch, Denise Y.; Neustaedter, Carman; Odom, William; Axtell, Benett

doi:10.1145/3544548.3581142

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“…This enables digital game logic to have effects on tangible components (digital −→ physical), but also allows the game to enact players' motion commands (as done in DungeonMaker), or acquire and react to player-initiated state changes on the board (physical −→ digital). In turn, this may enable tangible remote play [56][57][58]85], as demonstrated by commercial projects like Phantom Chess 13 . Creation + Destruction.…”

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DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

Stemasov,

Wagner,

Askari

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Hybrid board games (HBGs) augment their analog origins digitally (e.g., through apps) and are an increasingly popular pastime activity. Continuous world and character development and customization, known to facilitate engagement in video games, remain rare in HBGs. If present, they happen digitally or imaginarily, often leaving physical aspects generic. We developed DungeonMaker, a fabrication-augmented HBG bridging physical and digital game elements: 1) the setup narrates a story and projects a digital game board onto a laser cutter; 2) DungeonMaker assesses player-crafted artifacts; 3) DungeonMaker's modified laser head senses and moves player-and non-player figures, and 4) can physically damage figures. An evaluation (𝑛 = 4 × 3) indicated that DungeonMaker provides an engaging experience, may support players' connection to their figures, and potentially spark novices' interest in fabrication. DungeonMaker provides a rich constellation to play HBGs by blending aspects of craft and automation to couple the physical and digital elements of an HBG tightly. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); • Applied computing → Computer games.

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Section: Emergent Design Elements Beyond Dungeonmakermentioning

confidence: 99%

DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

Stemasov,

Wagner,

Askari

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Various groups have also investigated the effects of remote collaboration specifically for tabletop games, e.g. for complex role-playing games conducted using standard videoconferencing software [60], for remote roleplaying with dedicated support software [47], for a hybrid AR-tangible chess game [14], for a hybrid physical-digital version of the game "Wavelength" [35], or for a simple Ludo game in an asymmetric scenario [36]. So, while digital tools of high quality exist for even complex tabletop gaming scenarios, we, like e.g.…”

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SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Echtler,

Maierhöfer,

Hansen

et al. 2023

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Real-time online interaction is the norm today. Tabletops and other dedicated interactive surface devices with direct input and tangible interaction can enhance remote collaboration, and open up new interaction scenarios based on mixed physical/virtual components. However, they are only available to a small subset of users, as they usually require identical bespoke hardware for every participant, are complex to setup, and need custom scenario-specific applications.We present SurfaceCast, a software toolkit designed to merge multiple distributed, heterogeneous end-user devices into a single, shared mixed-reality surface. Supported devices include regular desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mixed-reality headsets, as well as projector-camera setups and dedicated interactive tabletop systems. This device-agnostic approach provides a fundamental building block for exploration of a far wider range of usage scenarios than previously feasible, including future clients using our provided API.In this paper, we discuss the software architecture of SurfaceCast, present a formative user study and a quantitative performance analysis of our framework, and introduce five example application scenarios which we enhance through the multi-user and multi-device features of the framework. Our results show that the hardware- and content-agnostic architecture of SurfaceCast can run on a wide variety of devices with sufficient performance and fidelity for real-time interaction.

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There is an “I” in “We”: Relatedness Technologies Viewed Through the Lens of the Need for Autonomy

Wenhart,

Hassenzahl

2024

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Remote Wavelength: Design and Evaluation of a System for Social Connectedness Through Distributed Tabletop Gameplay

Cited by 7 publications

References 81 publications

DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

There is an “I” in “We”: Relatedness Technologies Viewed Through the Lens of the Need for Autonomy

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