TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch

Shreyas Nisal; Rakesh Patibanda; Aryan Saini; Elise Van Den Hoven; Florian "Floyd" Mueller

doi:10.1145/3505270.3558332

TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch

Shreyas Nisal, Rakesh Patibanda, Aryan Saini, Elise Van Den Hoven, Florian "Floyd" Mueller

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

Body-actuating technologies such as Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) can actuate multiple players simultaneously via physical touch. To investigate this opportunity, we designed a game called "Touchmate". Here, one guesser and two suspects sit across with their legs hidden under a table. The guesser attaches a ground electrode from one EMS channel, and each suspect attaches one active electrode from the same channel on their forearms. When a suspect touches the guesser's leg, their bodies complete the electrical circuit, actuating both their hands involuntarily via the EMS. The guesser's goal is to determine who touched their leg. In this paper, we present the results from our initial study and articulate three player experience themes. Ultimately, we hope our work inspires game designers to create physical touch games using body-actuating technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY'22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Editors	Beth Bonsignore, Julian Frommel
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	153-158
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450392112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558332
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2022 - Bremen, Germany Duration: 2 Nov 2022 → 5 Nov 2022 Conference number: 9th https://chiplay.acm.org/2022/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3505270 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2022
Abbreviated title	CHI PLAY 2022
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Bremen
Period	2/11/22 → 5/11/22
Internet address	https://chiplay.acm.org/2022/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3505270 (Proceedings)

Keywords

bodily games
electrical muscle stimulation
EMS games
game design
integrated play
motor play
movement-based games
physical touch games
social games

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Nisal, S., Patibanda, R., Saini, A., Van Den Hoven, E., & Mueller, F. (2022). TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch. In B. Bonsignore, & J. Frommel (Eds.), CHI PLAY'22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 153-158). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558332

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Nisal, S, Patibanda, R, Saini, A, Van Den Hoven, E & Mueller, F 2022, TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch. in B Bonsignore & J Frommel (eds), CHI PLAY'22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 153-158, ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play 2022, Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558332

TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch. / Nisal, Shreyas; Patibanda, Rakesh; Saini, Aryan et al.
CHI PLAY'22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. ed. / Beth Bonsignore; Julian Frommel. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. p. 153-158.

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

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Nisal S, Patibanda R, Saini A, Van Den Hoven E, Mueller F. TouchMate: Understanding the design of body actuating games using physical touch. In Bonsignore B, Frommel J, editors, CHI PLAY'22 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2022. p. 153-158 doi: 10.1145/3505270.3558332

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