Outdoor play is an important component in the development of children and adolescents.
Nevertheless, there is a growing trend towards replacing outdoor play with sedentary …

After the outbreak of COVID-19, creating believable social virtual environments to substitute
face-to-face interactions became vital. Social presence is essential for creating realistic and …

Alternative game controllers offer opportunities to explore player interactions and enhance
game enjoyment. This paper presents an approach to creating playful game controllers …

In this paper we describe Rope Revolution, a rope-based gaming system for collaborative
play. After identifying popular rope games and activities around the world, we developed a …

Ubiquitous computing is a term used to describe an approach to product and service
delivery in which the technology is concealed in the background, requiring little to no …

Novice tangible interaction design students often find it challenging to generate input action
ideas for tangible interfaces. To identify opportunities to aid input action idea generation, we …

Parents and children increasingly spend time living apart due to marital separation and work
travel. I investigated parent-child separation in both of these contexts to find that current …

Virtual reality (VR) systems have been increasingly used in recent years in various domains,
such as education and training. Presence, which can be described asthe sense of being …

We present the Designable Sports Field (DSF), an environment where a" designer" designs
a sports field in accordance with the physical intensity of the player. Sports motivate players …

We describe a process of materials inquiry that gave rise to a new kind of sensor: a string
figure sensor that correlates resistance changes with the topology of a closed loop of string …