Musical embrace: facilitating engaging Ppay experiences through social awkwardness

Amy Huggard; Anushka De Mel; Jayden Garner; Cagdas Toprak; Alan Chatham; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1145/2468356.2479612

Musical embrace: facilitating engaging Ppay experiences through social awkwardness

Amy Huggard, Anushka De Mel, Jayden Garner, Cagdas Toprak, Alan Chatham, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

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Abstract

Socially awkward experiences are often looked upon as something to be avoided. However, examples from the traditional games domain suggest that social awkwardness can facilitate engaging experiences. Yet so far, there has been little research into social awkwardness and digital games. In acknowledgement of this, we present Musical Embrace, a digital game that promotes close physical contact between two strangers, through the use of a novel pillow-like controller, in order to navigate a virtual soundscape. Through our observations from demonstrating Musical Embrace at a number of events, we have procured a set of strategies intend on engaging players by “facilitating” social awkwardness, allowing players to “transform” while also letting players take “control” of social awkwardness. With our work we hope to inspire game designers to consider the potential of social awkwardness and guide them when using it for engaging playful experiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Patrick Baudisch, Wendy E. Mackay
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	3067-3070
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450318990
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479612
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013 - Paris, France Duration: 27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013 Conference number: 31st https://chi2013.acm.org/program/

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013
Abbreviated title	CHI 2013
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/04/13 → 2/05/13
Other	Theme: Changing Perspectives
Internet address	https://chi2013.acm.org/program/

Keywords

Body contact
Digital play
Exertion
Social awkwardness
Tangibles
Uncomfortable interactions

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Huggard, A., De Mel, A., Garner, J., Toprak, C., Chatham, A., & Mueller, F. F. (2013). Musical embrace: facilitating engaging Ppay experiences through social awkwardness. In M. Beaudouin-Lafon, P. Baudisch, & W. E. Mackay (Eds.), Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3067-3070). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479612

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Huggard, A, De Mel, A, Garner, J, Toprak, C, Chatham, A & Mueller, FF 2013, Musical embrace: facilitating engaging Ppay experiences through social awkwardness. in M Beaudouin-Lafon, P Baudisch & WE Mackay (eds), Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 3067-3070, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013, Paris, France, 27/04/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479612

Musical embrace: facilitating engaging Ppay experiences through social awkwardness. / Huggard, Amy; De Mel, Anushka; Garner, Jayden et al.
Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Michel Beaudouin-Lafon; Patrick Baudisch; Wendy E. Mackay. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013. p. 3067-3070.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

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