Experiencing the body as play

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller; Richard Byrne; Josh Andres; Rakesh Patibanda

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173784

Experiencing the body as play

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Richard Byrne, Josh Andres, Rakesh Patibanda

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Abstract

Games research in HCI is continually interested in the human body. However, recent work suggests that the field has only begun to understand how to design bodily games. We propose that the games research field is advancing from playing with digital content using a keyboard, to using bodies to play with digital content, towards a future where we experience our bodies as digital play. To guide designers interested in supporting players to experience their bodies as play, we present two phenomenological perspectives on the human body (Körper and Leib) and articulate a suite of design tactics using our own and other people's work. We hope with this paper, we are able to help designers embrace the point that we both "have" a body and "are" a body, thereby aiding the facilitation of the many benefits of engaging the human body through games and play, and ultimately contributing to a more humanized technological future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Anna Cox, Mark Perry
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173784
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 Conference number: 36th https://chi2018.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3173574 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	https://chi2018.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3173574 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Exergame
Exertion games
Play
Whole-body interaction

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Mueller, FF, Byrne, R, Andres, J & Patibanda, R 2018, Experiencing the body as play. in A Cox & M Perry (eds), Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 210, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173784

Experiencing the body as play. / Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'; Byrne, Richard; Andres, Josh et al.
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Anna Cox; Mark Perry. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. 210.

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