"Generic Shooter 3000"" is a First-Person shooter with semi-realistic interaction, where actions such as firing a gun or diving through underwater sections are performed with your own body- through the use of biofeedback technology. This prototype is ...

We present the Android game Taxi Trouble, an interactive, competitive and collaborative multi-player game focusing on stimulating social interaction, effective communication and entertaining groups of four to eight people for a short timeframe.

In this extended abstract, we present PowerFall, a 2D arcade-style voice-controlled two-player collaborative game. In the game, two players control two cartoon characters tied back-to-back under a falling parachute. The players shout into smartphone ...

OHR is a puzzle and platform game, based on both classical mechanics and tangible interaction, powered by Unity3D and a custom-built hardware interface called Radiant Square (Radiant2). OHR tells the tale of Spark, an electronic life form, which wakes ...

Tag and Seek is a location-based game which leads a traveler through Tainan City in Taiwan. The traveler's task is to find Harry's friends who are hiding at different sites in the city. Once at the site, the traveler has to scan a Near Field ...

Little Newton is a 3D defense game in which the player learns about basic physics concepts by controlling physical attributes of projectiles. The mechanics of the game require the player to learn the basics of parabolic arcs, and friction in order to ...

Smartphone games lack the hardware interface afforded by other gaming media like controllers for consoles, keyboard and mouse for PCs, joysticks and buttons on arcade cabinets, etc. As such, many popular games focus on puzzle mechanics using the touch ...

Sports video games should be inherently competitive, but they fall short in providing true competition for the players. The emphasis on statistical simulations in traditional sports video games has taken away the ability for players to gain expertise ...

Shynosaurs is a game designed to harvest the full range of the natural behaviour of the eyes. On one hand, players need to use their eyes to aim where they direct the mouse, click and drop characters into a safe zone (the cuties). This is the usual ...

Traditional methods of teaching concepts relating to buoyancy (sinking and floating) to elementary students are often ineffective. With the development of new const-effective haptic controllers, we may be able to improve upon traditional teaching ...

This paper presents a 2D game designed to assist students in better understanding motion graphs. In this game the player's character is not controlled by a joystick or control pad. Instead the game employs a unique interface enabling the player to ...

In this paper we introduce Hidden Lion, a Location Based Service(LBS) APP game which is related to sword lion culture in Anping, Taiwan. Sword Lion symbolizes the protector god in Anping. Many local people built sword lions in front their houses because ...

We propose the notion of semi-iconic game input (i.e., sharing some properties of game objects instead of being a complete iconic representation of them) and investigate influence of controller representation on player experience. In particular, we ...

We present the preliminary work in the TAEMILE project, which aims to co-regulate the learning process in educational games by automatically balancing learners autonomy and the pedagogical processes intended by educators. We focus on our design ...

In an attempt to provide academic game development studios with an efficient and low-cost data collection system that can be used across multiple games, the Assessment Data Aggregator for Gaming Environments (ADAGE) framework is currently being designed ...

Game designers have to satisfy the needs of different player types. This paper presents a generalizable concept for switching between different play styles or genres without changing the basic game elements. As an example we employ specific combinations ...

In this paper we present a playable interactive documentary experience, wanted:Guild, about the experience of hardcore gamers. Informed by postmodern literary theory, the project uses a stereoscopic virtual-reality-based environment supported by the ...

Collectors often attach memories and stories to the objects they collect. These stories can be lost over time, and particularly when the collections are digitized. In this paper, we present semi-structured interviews with collectors of hockey ...

This paper proposes Interactive Social Stories (ISS), a new approach for enhancing traditional autism interventions to promote stimulus { em generalization}. Using interactive narrative techniques of variability and branching structures, we designed a ...

Traditional classroom methods of teaching concepts relating to buoyancy (sinking and floating) to elementary students are often ineffective. Incorporating haptic force-feedback controllers may help to improve traditional teaching methods. ASPECT: ...