The ToyVision Toolkit for Tangible Games

Marco, Javier; Cerezo, Eva; Baldassarri, Sandra

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_58

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“…Participants will be introduced to a NIKVision tabletop [3]: an interactive horizontal surface designed to be used by children. Through experiencing a set of existing ToyVision tangible games created for NIKVision (see fig.…”

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Designing and making a tangible tabletop game with ToyVision

Marco

Oakley

Cerezo

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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Studio participants will design and prototype tangible board-games for NIKVision: a tabletop computer for young children. The goal of this studio is to give designers and developers hands-on experience of developing a functional prototype of a tangible tabletop application without the intrinsic difficulties of managing electronic sensors, actuators and machine vision algorithms. During the studio attendees will complete a simple but conceptually complete tangible board-game prototype during the workshop day by abstracting the technologies and keeping focus firmly on the application behaviours and the interactions between users, objects and the system. This will be achieved through using the ToyVision toolkit, a set of software tools that lowers the threshold of prototyping both the "bits" and "atoms" of interactive tabletop games.

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“…This studio addresses these issues by presenting ToyVision [3], a software toolkit that lowers the threshold for prototyping both the bits and the atoms of tangible tabletop games. Its goal is to provide a toolset that supports designers in exploring rich, expressive and complete tangible interactions in computer augmented board-games.…”

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Designing and making a tangible tabletop game with ToyVision

Marco

Oakley

Cerezo

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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“…ToyVision extends the Reactivision framework, adding a Widget layer of abstraction in order to translate raw tabletop events into playing pieces status straight related to the context of the game [14]. Designers and developers can visually model all passive and active manipulations involved in their game concepts in a Graphic Assistant, and test them immediately in a tabletop device (see Figure 8).…”

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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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“…Some groups work on extending the elements of physical games with electronic components [1]. Other groups research on the creation of tangible games on tabletop devices by using diverse technologies such as RFID [2] and visual fiducials [5].…”

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Craft, click and play

Martinez

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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In this paper we present a novel approach for kids' entertainment along with a related technology that makes it possible (as well as a set of use cases that demonstrate its potential). Our approach employs both physical and digital elements. Instead of mixing the physical and digital worlds in the same interface, both worlds are employed separately. In a few words, the kids play with typical physical elements in a creative way for crafting a game scenario in the real world. Then, the result of this physical playtime is transferred to a digital device (particularly a tablet or smartphone) by taking a picture of it. Particular game elements (and its role) are recognised based on their colour. As a result, a digital game is automatically built from the photograph of their physical creations. Two key features of our approach are simplicity and immediacy. The kids can create new whole entertaining experiences very easily (from the technological point of view). The kids are not only responsible for creating the scenarios, but also for defining the game rules and controlling its compliance (as it happens in traditional physical games). The approach aims to foster kids' creativity, socialization, responsibility, conflict resolution, flexibility, and their manual and artistic skills.

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The ToyVision Toolkit for Tangible Games

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Designing and making a tangible tabletop game with ToyVision

Designing and making a tangible tabletop game with ToyVision

Innovative interfaces for Serious Games

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