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Musical embrace: facilitating engaging play experiences through social awkwardness

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Amy Huggard,

Anushka De Mel,

Jayden Garner,

Cagdas "Chad" Toprak,

Alan D. Chatham,

Florian MuellerAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479612

Published: 27 April 2013 Publication History

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Socially awkward experiences are often looked upon as something to be avoided. However, examples from the traditional games domain suggest that social awkwardness can facilitate engaging experiences. Yet so far, there has been little research into social awkwardness and digital games. In acknowledgement of this, we present Musical Embrace, a digital game that promotes close physical contact between two strangers, through the use of a novel pillow-like controller, in order to navigate a virtual soundscape. Through our observations from demonstrating Musical Embrace at a number of events, we have procured a set of strategies intend on engaging players by "facilitating" social awkwardness, allowing players to "transform" while also letting players take "control" of social awkwardness. With our work we hope to inspire game designers to consider the potential of social awkwardness and guide them when using it for engaging playful experiences.

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DOI:10.1145/2468356

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Sadasue MTagami DSarcar SOchiai Y(2021)Blind-BadmintonUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Media, Learning and Assistive Environments10.1007/978-3-030-78095-1_36(494-506)Online publication date: 24-Jul-2021
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Li ZPatibanda RBrandmueller FWang WBerean KGreuter SMueller FMueller FJohnson DSchouten BToups Dugas PWyeth P(2018)The Guts GameProceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3242671.3242681(271-283)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2018
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Spence JSpence J(2016)The Performative Experience Design MethodologyPerformative Experience Design10.1007/978-3-319-28395-1_4(81-103)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2016
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