Conference Proceedings
Designing Sports: A Framework for Exertion Games
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Darren Edge, Frank Vetere, Martin R Gibbs, Stefan Agamanolis, Bert Bongers, Jennifer G Sheridan
29TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY | Published : 2011
Abstract
Exertion games require investing physical effort. The fact that such games can support physical health is tempered by our limited understanding of how to design for engaging exertion experiences. This paper introduces the Exertion Framework as a way to think and talk about Exertion Games, both for their formative design and summative analysis. Our Exertion Framework is based on the ways in which we can conceive of the body investing in game-directed exertion, supported by four perspectives on the body (the Responding Body, Moving Body, Sensing Body and Relating Body) and three perspectives on gaming (rules, play and context). The paper illustrates how this framework was derived from prior sy..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was partially supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and a Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. Thanks to Nokia, Telstra, HCSNet and Scott Klemmer, Terry Winograd, Jeff Heer, Steven Dow, Ted Selker, Roz Picard and all the many helpers in the individual projects. Videos of the key experiences are at: http://exertioninterfaces.com