I'm in the game: Embodied puppet interface improves avatar control

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 129-136

  Mazalek, Ali ^a   Chandrasekharan, Sanjay ^b   Nitsche, Michael ^a   Welsh, Tim ^c   Clifton, Paul ^a   Quitmeyer, Andrew ^a   Peer, Firaz ^a   Kirschner, Friedrich ^a   Athreya, Dilip ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Body memory; Common coding; Creativity; Embodied interface; Puppet; Tangible user interface; Video game; Virtual character

Indexed keywords

BODY MEMORY; COMMON CODING; CREATIVITY; EMBODIED INTERFACE; PUPPET; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROTATION; USER INTERFACES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 79952341301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935701.1935727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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