Exploring the Player Experiences of Wearable Gaming Interfaces: A User Elicitation Study

Ruowei Xiao; Sangwon Jung; Oguz 'Oz' Buruk; Juho Hamari

doi:10.1145/3549497

Exploring the Player Experiences of Wearable Gaming Interfaces: A User Elicitation Study

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Abstract

The design and development of playful wearable devices is a challenging and complicated problem. It entails not only multidisciplinary expertise but also a comprehensive understanding of player experience. There is a scarcity of evidence-based studies in current state-of-art literature that investigate general design practices and provide pragmatic design implications and suggestions based on solid user-centered research. To bridge the gap, we developed five experience prototypes based on the speculative design concepts from previous studies, and a Wizard of Oz experiment was conducted to elicit end users' feedback regarding general gaming experience as well as specific design themes in different gaming scenarios. The user experiment results were analyzed qualitatively following a rigorous thematic analysis, generating five major design implications as output. We believe this study will offer forward-looking insights to designers, developers and the research community, facilitating future work in this field.

Original language	English
Article number	234
Number of pages	26
Journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume	6
Issue number	CHI PLAY
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3549497
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2022
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Business Finland under decisions 5654/31/2018 GArMEnt and the Academy of Finland under the grant decisions 337653 UNITE Flagship, 332168 ClothFace.

Keywords

experience prototyping
game controllers
game design
gaming devices
thematic analysis
user-centered design
wearable
Wizard-Of-Oz

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications

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