user-centered design in video games: investigating gestural interfaces appropriation

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NICOLAS NOVA & TIMOTHEE JOBERT, 24.06.2011, MILANO

DPPI 2011

USER-CENTERED DESIGN IN VIDEO GAMES: INVESTIGATING GESTURAL INTERFACES APPROPRIATION

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IntroductionField studyDesign implicationsGame prototypes

PART IPART IIPART IIIPART IV

OUTLINE 212

I STARTING POINT 1: NEW SENSOR TECHNOLOGY (MOVEA) 213

I STARTING POINT 2: UCD BEYOND USABILITY 214

I STARTING POINT 3: REALISM 215

Physical representation

of human agency in the

“game”

1 button = 1 possibility

I STARTING POINT 3: REALISM 216

Movements instead of

buttons, no buttons and

“infinite possibilities”,

supposed to convey “realism”

II FIELD STUDY 217

Home visits / 10 participants / 4

sub-groups (experts versus casual

players / high versus low physical

skills) / 3 games played with joypad

IV PLAYERS EXPERIENCE SHAPED BY 4 MAIN PARAMETERS 218

Sensationperception of specific feeling caused by game interactions

Precisionpossibility to play with interaction accuracy

Performancethe achievement of specific

game tasks

Excitationa feeling of enthusiasm when

gesturing

III REALISM? 219

“Sport is not just gesticulations!”

“I can do a gesture to kick the ball

but I can’t move characters from my

team!”

III REALISM? 2110

Kicks detected

only when done

backwards!

Regular kicks

not detected

III REALISM? 2111

“it breaks the illusion, I

need to press buttons

and make gestures”

II REMNANTS FROM THE PAST 2112

III DESIGN SPACE 2113

III DESIGN SPACE 2114

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2115

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2116

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2117

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2118

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2119

IV VIDEO GAMES PROTOTYPES 2120

NICOLAS NOVA

nicolas@liftlab.com

THANK YOU MERCI GRACIAS DANKE GRAZIE

In partnership with

Movea

CEA-LID

eXperience-Team

Widescreen Games

TIMOTHEE JOBERT

timothee.jobert@cea.fr