Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation

Richard Byrne; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_12

Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation

Richard Byrne, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

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Abstract

Interactive systems have been used successfully in sports to assist people in achieving their performance goals, however, we believe that some aspects are often overlooked. In this paper we focus on rock climbing and we examine existing work on climbing from varying fields, including sports science, psychology, and climbing literary works, in order to identify recurring motivational themes. In total we identify and describe five key themes from these works: “risk as a measure of progress”, “maintaining challenge”, “social engagement”, “experiencing beauty and nature”, and “documenting and reliving the experience”. We then examine how existing digital climbing experiences address these themes and suggest ways in which these interactive climbing designs could embrace the themes they do not yet address. We believe this work will be important not only when designing digital climbing experiences, but also digital experiences for other extreme sports.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014
Subtitle of host publication	13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings
Editors	Yusuf Pisan, Nikitas M. Sgouros, Tim Marsh
Place of Publication	Heidelberg Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	92-99
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9783662452127
ISBN (Print)	9783662452110
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_12
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2014 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Oct 2014 → 3 Oct 2014 Conference number: 13th https://web.archive.org/web/20140217070456/http://icec2014.info/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-45212-7

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	8770
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2014
Abbreviated title	ICEC 2014
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	1/10/14 → 3/10/14
Internet address	https://web.archive.org/web/20140217070456/http://icec2014.info/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-45212-7

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Byrne, R., & 'Floyd' Mueller, F. (2014). Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation. In Y. Pisan, N. M. Sgouros, & T. Marsh (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings (pp. 92-99). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 8770). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_12

Byrne, Richard ; 'Floyd' Mueller, Florian. / Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings. editor / Yusuf Pisan ; Nikitas M. Sgouros ; Tim Marsh. Heidelberg Germany : Springer, 2014. pp. 92-99 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

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Byrne, R & 'Floyd' Mueller, F 2014, Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation. in Y Pisan, N M. Sgouros & T Marsh (eds), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 8770, Springer, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 92-99, International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2014, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_12

Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation. / Byrne, Richard; 'Floyd' Mueller, Florian.
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings. ed. / Yusuf Pisan; Nikitas M. Sgouros; Tim Marsh. Heidelberg Germany: Springer, 2014. p. 92-99 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 8770).

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Byrne R, 'Floyd' Mueller F. Designing digital climbing experiences through understanding rock climbing motivation. In Pisan Y, M. Sgouros N, Marsh T, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014 Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014 Proceedings. Heidelberg Germany: Springer. 2014. p. 92-99. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_12

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