Designing for depth: underwater play

Sarah Jane Pell; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1145/2513002.2513036

Designing for depth: underwater play

Sarah Jane Pell, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

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Abstract

The underwater domain is an alluring 'other world', inviting of human-aquatic interactivity and bodily play and yet it is also an extreme environment as it is inhospitable to support human life without external air-supply. Playful interactions are therefore matters of life and death in the underwater domain. We correlated data on human-aquatic interactions and narcosis with a range of game design principals to produce a design pallet for digital underwater play from water level to 30m depth. We also present a proof-of-concept system called Gravity Well as an exemplary research tool. Through our work, we aim to inspire other researchers and designers to consider creating digital play in and under water.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IE 2013 - Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
Subtitle of host publication	Matters of Life and Death
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN (Print)	9781450322546
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2513002.2513036
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2013: Matters of Life and Death - Melbourne, VIC, Australia Duration: 30 Sept 2013 → 1 Oct 2013 Conference number: 9th

Conference

Conference	Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2013
Abbreviated title	IE 2013
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne, VIC
Period	30/09/13 → 1/10/13

Keywords

Aquabatics
Diving
Exertion games
Underwater robotics

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Pell, SJ & Mueller, FF 2013, Designing for depth: underwater play. in IE 2013 - Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death., 24, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2013, Melbourne, VIC, Victoria, Australia, 30/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2513002.2513036

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