Limited Control Over the Body as Intriguing Play Design Resource

'Floyd' Mueller, Florian; Patibanda, Rakesh; Byrne, Richard; Li, Zhuying; Wang, Yan; Andres, Josh; Li, Xiang; Marquez, Jonathan; Greuter, Stefan; Duckworth, Jonathan; Marshall, Joe

Abstract

Interest in combining interactive play and the human body, using “bodily play” systems, is increasing. While these systems primarily prioritize a player's control over their bodily actions, we see intriguing possibilities in the pursuit of “limited control over the body” as an intriguing design resource for bodily play systems. In this paper, we use three of our bodily play systems to illustrate how designers can engage with limited control over the body by varying the player's degree of indirect control (for instance, via other bodily activity and external triggers). We also propose four strategies for employing limited control over the body: Exploration, Reflection, Learning and Embracement. We hope our own work and the strategies developed from it will assist designers to employ limited control over the body, ultimately helping people benefit from engaging their bodies through play.

Citation

'Floyd' Mueller, F., Patibanda, R., Byrne, R., Li, Z., Wang, Y., Andres, J., Li, X., Marquez, J., Greuter, S., Duckworth, J., & Marshall, J. (2021, May). Limited Control Over the Body as Intriguing Play Design Resource. Presented at CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Start Date: May 8, 2021
• End Date: May 13, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Mar 31, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2021
• Publication Date: May 6, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 14, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 21, 2025
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-16
• Book Title: CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article No.: 435
• ISBN: 9781450380966
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445744
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/46469667
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445744