More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/

research-article

Open access

FabO: Integrating Fabrication with a Player’s Gameplay in Existing Digital Games

Authors:

Dishita G. Turakhia,

Harrison Mitchell Allen,

Kayla DesPortes,

Stefanie MuellerAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '21: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Article No.: 21, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3465239

Published: 22 June 2021 Publication History

All formats PDF

Abstract

Fabricating objects from a player’s gameplay, for example, collectibles of valuable game items, or custom game controllers shaped from game objects, expands ways to engage with digital games. Researchers currently create such integrated fabrication games from scratch, which is time-consuming and misses the potential of integrating fabrication with the myriad existing games. Integrating fabrication with the real-time gameplay of existing games, however, is challenging without access to the source files.

To address this challenge, we present a framework that uses on-screen visual content to integrate fabrication with existing digital games. To implement this framework, we built the FabO toolkit, in which (1) designers use the FabO designer interface to choose the gameplay moments for fabrication and tag the associated on-screen visual cues; (2) players then use the FabO player interface which monitors their gameplay, identifies these cues and auto-generates the fabrication files for the game objects. Results from our two user studies show that FabO supported in integrating fabrication with diverse games while augmenting players’ experience. We discuss insights from our studies on choosing suitable on-screen visual content and gameplay moments for seamless integration of fabrication.

References

[1]

Lea Albaugh, April Grow, Chenxi Liu, James McCann, Gillian Smith, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2016. Threadsteading: Playful Interaction for Textile Fabrication Devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 285–288. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2889466

Digital Library

[2]

Patrick Baudisch, Stefanie Mueller, 2017. Personal fabrication. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction 10, 3–4(2017), 165–293. https://doi.org/10.1145/2909132.2934645

Digital Library

[3]

Srinjita Bhaduri, Jesús G Ortiz Tovar, and Shaun K Kane. 2017. Fabrication games: using 3D printers to explore new interactions for tabletop games. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. ACM, 51–62. https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3059463

Digital Library

[4]

Xuelin Chen, Honghua Li, Chi-Wing Fu, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Baoquan Chen. 2018. 3D Fabrication with Universal Building Blocks and Pyramidal Shells. ACM Trans. Graph. 37, 6, Article 189 (Dec. 2018), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272127.3275033

Digital Library

[5]

Nir Dick, Naama Glauber, Adi Yehezkeli, Moran Mizrahi, Shani Reches, Maiayn Ben-Yona, Anna Carmi, and Amit Zoran. 2018. Design with Minimal Intervention: Drawing with Light and Cracks. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 1107–1120. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196814

Digital Library

[6]

David Eickhoff, Stefanie Mueller, and Patrick Baudisch. 2016. Destructive games: Creating value by destroying valuable physical objects. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 3970–3974. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858113

Digital Library

[7]

Verena Fuchsberger, Martin Murer, Manfred Tscheligi, Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Andreas Reiter, and Pernille Bjorn. 2016. Fabrication & HCI: Hobbyist making, industrial production, and beyond. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 3550–3557. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856491

Digital Library

[8]

Minecraft Game. 2020. Minecraft. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us

[9]

Zoo Tycoon Game. 2021. Zoo Tycoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Tycoon

[10]

Twine Games. 2020. Twine Games. https://twinery.org/

[11]

Gabriella M. Johnson and Shaun K. Kane. 2020. Game Changer: Accessible Audio and Tactile Guidance for Board and Card Games. In Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (Taipei, Taiwan) (W4A ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371300.3383347

Digital Library

[12]

Ben Lafreniere and Tovi Grossman. 2018. Blocks-to-CAD: A Cross-Application Bridge from Minecraft to 3D Modeling. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 637–648. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242602

Digital Library

[13]

Sus Lundgren and Staffan Björk. 2012. Neither playing nor gaming: pottering in games. In Proceedings of the international conference on the foundations of digital games. 113–120. https://doi.org/10.1145/2282338.2282363

Digital Library

[14]

Stefanie Mueller, Sangha Im, Serafima Gurevich, Alexander Teibrich, Lisa Pfisterer, François Guimbretière, and Patrick Baudisch. 2014. WirePrint: 3D Printed Previews for Fast Prototyping. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) (UIST ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 273–280. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647359

Digital Library

[15]

Stefanie Mueller, Bastian Kruck, and Patrick Baudisch. 2013. LaserOrigami: laser-cutting 3D objects. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2585–2592. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481358

Digital Library

[16]

Carsten Rother, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Andrew Blake. 2004. ” GrabCut” interactive foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts. ACM transactions on graphics (TOG) 23, 3 (2004), 309–314. https://doi.org/10.1145/1186562.1015720

Digital Library

[17]

Anne Sullivan and Emily K Johnson. 2019. BeadED Adventures: Crafting STEM Learning. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 351–358. https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3300997

Digital Library

[18]

Anne Sullivan, Joshua Allen McCoy, Sarah Hendricks, and Brittany Williams. 2018. Loominary: crafting tangible artifacts from player narrative. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 443–450. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173249

Digital Library

[19]

Joshua Tanenbaum and Karen Tanenbaum. 2015. Envisioning the Future of Wearable Play: Conceptual Models for Props and Costumes as Game Controllers.

[20]

Joshua Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, and Michael Cowling. 2017. Designing Hybrid Games for Playful Fabrication: Augmentation, Accumulation and Idleness. In Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (CHI PLAY ’17 Extended Abstracts). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 413–419. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131334

Digital Library

[21]

Joshua Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Katherine Isbister, Kaho Abe, Anne Sullivan, and Luigi Anzivino. 2015. Costumes and wearables as game controllers. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 477–480. https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2683584

Digital Library

[22]

Joshua G Tanenbaum and Karen Tanenbaum. 2015. Fabricating futures: Envisioning scenarios for home fabrication Technology. In Creativity in the Digital Age. Springer, 193–221.

[23]

Joshua G. Tanenbaum, Amanda M. Williams, Audrey Desjardins, and Karen Tanenbaum. 2013. Democratizing Technology: Pleasure, Utility and Expressiveness in DIY and Maker Practice. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Paris, France) (CHI ’13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2603–2612. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481360

Digital Library

[24]

Tom Valkeneers, Danny Leen, Daniel Ashbrook, and Raf Ramakers. 2019. StackMold: Rapid Prototyping of Functional Multi-Material Objects with Selective Levels of Surface Details. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (New Orleans, LA, USA) (UIST ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 687–699. https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347915

Digital Library

[25]

Nicolas Villar, Kiel Gilleade, Devina Ramdunyellis, and Hans Gellersen. 2007. The VoodooIO gaming kit: a real-time adaptable gaming controller. Computers in Entertainment (CIE) 5, 3 (2007), 7. https://doi.org/10.1145/1316511.1316518

Digital Library

[26]

Xiuming Zhang, Tali Dekel, Tianfan Xue, Andrew Owens, Qiurui He, Jiajun Wu, Stefanie Mueller, and William T Freeman. 2018. Mosculp: Interactive visualization of shape and time. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 275–285. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242592

Digital Library

Cited By

Stemasov EWagner TAskari AJanek JRajabi OSchikorr AFrommel JGugenheimer JRukzio E(2024)DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication TechnologyProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642243(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642243
Turakhia DJiang PMueller S(2023)The Reflective Make-AR In-Action: Using Augmented Reality for Reflection-based Learning of MakerskillsExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585850(1-6)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585850
Turakhia DLudgin DMueller SDesportes K(2023)Understanding the educators’ practices in makerspaces for the design of education toolsEducational technology research and development10.1007/s11423-023-10305-172:1(329-358)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10305-1
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Identifying Game Mechanics for Integrating Fabrication Activities within Existing Digital Games
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Integrating fabrication activities into existing video games provides opportunities for players to construct objects from their gameplay and bring the digital content into the physical world. In our prior work, we outlined a framework and developed a ...
Analyzing n-player impartial games
Abstract
Combinatorial game theory is the study of two player perfect information games. While work has been done in the past on expanding this field to include n-player games we present a unique method which guarantees a single winner. Specifically our ...
n-Player impartial combinatorial games with random players

In this paper we develop a method of analyzing n-player impartial combinatorial games where n - 1 players behave optimally while one of the players plays randomly. More specifically, we develop a function g r that maps impartial combinatorial games to n-...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

C&C '21: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

June 2021

581 pages

ISBN:9781450383769

DOI:10.1145/3450741

General Chairs:
Corina Sas
Lancaster University, UK
,
Neil Maiden
City, University of London, UK

Copyright © 2021 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 22 June 2021

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article
Research
Refereed limited

Funding Sources

MIT.nano NCSoft
National Science Foundation
MIT Learning Initiative

Conference

C&C '21

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

C&C '21: Creativity and Cognition

June 22 - 23, 2021

Virtual Event, Italy

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 108 of 371 submissions, 29%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

4
Total Citations
View Citations
543
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)144
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)19

Reflects downloads up to 14 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Stemasov EWagner TAskari AJanek JRajabi OSchikorr AFrommel JGugenheimer JRukzio E(2024)DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication TechnologyProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642243(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642243
Turakhia DJiang PMueller S(2023)The Reflective Make-AR In-Action: Using Augmented Reality for Reflection-based Learning of MakerskillsExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585850(1-6)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585850
Turakhia DLudgin DMueller SDesportes K(2023)Understanding the educators’ practices in makerspaces for the design of education toolsEducational technology research and development10.1007/s11423-023-10305-172:1(329-358)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10305-1
Turakhia D(2022)Designing Tools for Autodidactic Learning of SkillsAdjunct Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3526114.3558526(1-4)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3526114.3558526

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format.

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents