Towards an interface for untethered ubiquitous gaming

Tiago Martins; Teresa Romão; Christa Sommerer; Laurent Mignonneau; Nuno Correia

doi:10.1145/1501750.1501757

Towards an interface for untethered ubiquitous gaming

Tiago Martins, Teresa Romão, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Nuno Correia

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Abstract

This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a wearable interface for ubiquitous gaming, dubbed Gauntlet. Our objective has been to achieve a user interface for intuitive and immersive interaction in mobile gaming environments, but generic enough to be used in diverse game styles and untethered from location-specific hardware and software frameworks. A fully-functional prototype has been built from the first design approach and its use illustrated by a gaming application based on manipulation of real objects. Usability evaluation, focusing on players' experiences with the Gauntlet, has helped us to validate our approach and uproot both usability and wearability issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	26-33
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-160558393-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1501750.1501757
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2008
Event	2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 3 Dec 2008 → 5 Dec 2008

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Conference	2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	3/12/08 → 5/12/08

Keywords

Evaluation
Gaming
Gauntlet
Interface
Pervasive
Ubiquitous
Usability
Wearable

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Martins, T, Romão, T, Sommerer, C, Mignonneau, L & Correia, N 2008, Towards an interface for untethered ubiquitous gaming. in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 26-33, 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008, Yokohama, Japan, 3/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1501750.1501757

Towards an interface for untethered ubiquitous gaming. / Martins, Tiago; Romão, Teresa; Sommerer, Christa; Mignonneau, Laurent; Correia, Nuno.

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008. p. 26-33.

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