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Multi-Player Gaming on Spherical Displays

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Julie R. Williamson,

John Williamson,

Daniel Sundén,

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 355 - 358

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2725447

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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Spherical displays offer unique affordances for multi-player games and playful interactions in social spaces. The shape of a spherical display allows users to face each other and maintain eye contact during interaction, creating a different social dynamic than at a flat display. There is also no intrinsically defined front or centre of the display, offering different views from different viewing angles. This creates shared and private areas of the display given users' varying perspectives. Trajectory based games have a dramatically different experience when played on a spherical surface. Side-scrolling games are also exciting on a spherical surface, becoming "rotating" games where users' action affect others playing at different points around the screen. This Interactivity exhibit showcases two multi-player games that specifically exploit the affordances of a spherical display in a social setting.

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

2546 pages

ISBN:9781450331463

DOI:10.1145/2702613

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Bo Begole
Huawei, USA
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Jinwoo Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
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Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, Korea

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