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Alone Together: A Multiplayer Augmented Reality Online Ball Passing Game

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CSCW'15 Companion: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702680

Published: 28 February 2015 Publication History

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We present Alone Together, an interactive collaborative virtual ball playing environment augmented with three sets of Microsoft Kinect. The play environment attempts to mimic the real world ball-passing exercise (or rehabilitation sessions) except that the players can be miles away from each other, and they interact without a physical ball. Moreover, our system allows each player to see the other two and their physical environment respectively, which is a combination of the physical world where players are situated and the virtual world where they play with each other. Kinect sensors are used to map players' action into a virtual world including the passing of the virtual ball.

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Alone Together: A Multiplayer Augmented Reality Online Ball Passing Game
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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CSCW'15 Companion: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

February 2015

350 pages

ISBN:9781450329460

DOI:10.1145/2685553

General Chairs:
Dan Cosley
Cornell University, USA
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Andrea Forte
Drexel University, USA
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Luigina Ciolfi
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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David McDonald
University of Washington, USA

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CSCW '15: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

March 14 - 18, 2015

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Guntha RHariharan BVenkat Rangan P(2016)WWoW: World Without Walls Immersive Mixed Reality with Virtual Co-location, Natural Interactions, and Remote CollaborationIntelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_20(209-219)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_20
Nogueira PTorres VRodrigues ROliveira ENacke L(2015)Vanishing scares: biofeedback modulation of affective player experiences in a procedural horror gameJournal on Multimodal User Interfaces10.1007/s12193-015-0208-110:1(31-62)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2015
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