Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation

Rakesh Patibanda; Xiang Li; Yuzheng Chen; Aryan Saini; Christian N. Hill; Elise Van Den Hoven; Florian "Floyd" Mueller

doi:10.1145/3450337.3483464

Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation

Rakesh Patibanda, Xiang Li, Yuzheng Chen, Aryan Saini, Christian N. Hill, Elise Van Den Hoven, Florian "Floyd" Mueller

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

Motor movements are performed while playing hand-games such as Rock-paper-scissors or Thumb-war. These games are believed to benefit both physical and mental health and are considered cultural assets. Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) is a technology that can actuate muscles, triggering motor movements and hence offers an opportunity for novel play experiences based on these traditional hand-games. However, there is only limited understanding of the design of EMS games. We present the design and evaluation of two games inspired by traditional hand-games, "Slap-me-if-you-can"and "3-4-5", which incorporate EMS and can be played alone, unlike traditional games. A thematic analysis of the data collected revealed three themes: 1) Gameplay experiences and influence of EMS hardware, 2) Interaction with EMS and the calibration process and, 3) Shared control and its effect on playing EMS games. We hope that an enhanced understanding of the potential of EMS to support hand-games can aid the advancement of movement-based games as a whole.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY'21 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Editors	Max Birk, Jo Iacovides
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	228-235
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450383561
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483464
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2021 - Virtual, Online, Austria Duration: 18 Oct 2021 → 21 Oct 2021 Conference number: 8th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3450337 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2021
Abbreviated title	CHI PLAY 2021
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Virtual, Online
Period	18/10/21 → 21/10/21
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3450337 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Bodily games
Electrical Muscle Stimulation
EMS Games
Game design
Hand games
Integrated Play
Movement-based games

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Patibanda, R., Li, X., Chen, Y., Saini, A., Hill, C. N., Van Den Hoven, E., & Mueller, F. (2021). Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation. In M. Birk, & J. Iacovides (Eds.), CHI PLAY'21 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 228-235). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483464

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Patibanda, R, Li, X, Chen, Y, Saini, A, Hill, CN, Van Den Hoven, E & Mueller, F 2021, Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation. in M Birk & J Iacovides (eds), CHI PLAY'21 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 228-235, ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria, 18/10/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483464

Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation. / Patibanda, Rakesh; Li, Xiang; Chen, Yuzheng et al.
CHI PLAY'21 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. ed. / Max Birk; Jo Iacovides. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 228-235.

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Patibanda R, Li X, Chen Y, Saini A, Hill CN, Van Den Hoven E et al. Actuating myself: designing hand-games incorporating electrical muscle stimulation. In Birk M, Iacovides J, editors, CHI PLAY'21 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2021. p. 228-235 doi: 10.1145/3450337.3483464

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