HIPPA: Smart Wearables for Enriching the Gameplay of a Traditional Tag Game

TY - GEN

T1 - HIPPA

T2 - 9th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2022

AU - Sten Andersen, Magnus

AU - Rask Schmahl, Oliver

AU - Galli, Giovanna

AU - Alavesa, Paula

AU - Pakanen, Minna

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Owner/Author.

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - Nowadays children are more and more focused on playing social games with their peers through technological devices staying most of the time immobile indoors. Pervasive games and location-based mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, have a stand against this negative phenomenon as gameplay takes place outdoors with the city as the game arena. However, there are still many possibilities to encourage children to actually play together outdoors and simultaneously challenge themselves to fitness gain via physical exercise as they used to do in the traditional social outdoor games, such as tag game. In this work in progress paper, we aim on adding challenge to the gameplay as well as enriching the haptic player and social experience of the tag game by design, crafting and implementation of a two-piece social gaming wearable, HIPPA (figure 1 a-c). HIPPA is aimed to offer a more competitive and fun tag player experience.

AB - Nowadays children are more and more focused on playing social games with their peers through technological devices staying most of the time immobile indoors. Pervasive games and location-based mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, have a stand against this negative phenomenon as gameplay takes place outdoors with the city as the game arena. However, there are still many possibilities to encourage children to actually play together outdoors and simultaneously challenge themselves to fitness gain via physical exercise as they used to do in the traditional social outdoor games, such as tag game. In this work in progress paper, we aim on adding challenge to the gameplay as well as enriching the haptic player and social experience of the tag game by design, crafting and implementation of a two-piece social gaming wearable, HIPPA (figure 1 a-c). HIPPA is aimed to offer a more competitive and fun tag player experience.

KW - Design process

KW - Interaction modalities

KW - Tag game

KW - Wearables

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143140656&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3505270.3558321

DO - 10.1145/3505270.3558321

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85143140656

SP - 31

EP - 37

BT - CHI PLAY '22

PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

Y2 - 2 November 2022 through 5 November 2022

ER -