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'In the Same Boat',: A Game of Mirroring Emotions for Enhancing Social Play

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Raquel Breejon Robinson,

Katherine IsbisterAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: INT011, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313268

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

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Social closeness is important for an individual's health and well-being, and this is especially difficult to maintain over a distance. Games can help with this, to connect and strengthen relationships or create new ones by enabling shared playful experiences. The demo proposed is a game we designed called 'In the Same Boat', a two-player game intended to foster social closeness between players over a distance. We leverage the synchronization of both players' physiological data (heart rate, breathing,facial expressions) mapped to an input scheme to control the movement of a canoe down a river.

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'In the Same Boat',: A Game of Mirroring Emotions for Enhancing Social Play
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Computer games
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2019

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ISBN:9781450359719

DOI:10.1145/3290607

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University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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TU Wien, Austria
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