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Sports over a distance

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Florian 'Floyd' Mueller,

Stefan AgamanolisAuthors Info & Claims

Computers in Entertainment (CIE), Volume 3, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1077246.1077261

Published: 01 July 2005 Publication History

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Computer games lack the social bonding and collective physical exercise benefits that sports provide. To overcome these limitations, we have been investigating how to apply the benefits of sport, in particular the workout and social bonding effect, in a distributed setting. We designed, developed, and evaluated Breakout for Two, which allows people who are miles apart to play a physically exhausting ball game together. We had over a thousand players who interacted through a life-size video-conference screen using a regular soccer ball as an input device. In an evaluative study, 56 players were interviewed and said that they got to know the other player better, had more fun, became better friends, and were happier with the transmitted audio and video quality in comparison to those who played the same game using a nonexertion keyboard interface. These results suggest that sports over a distance is an exciting new field with an "exertion interface" that encourages remote interaction, where players can achieve both a work-out and socializing.

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Sports over a distance
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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Computers in Entertainment Volume 3, Issue 3

Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment

July 2005

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DOI:10.1145/1077246

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