Designing the vertigo experience: vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play

Byrne, Richard; Marshall, Joe; Mueller, Florian �Floyd�

Abstract

Vertigo can be described as an attempt to momentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind. Vertigo has, however, not been generally considered as a design resource and we believe it to be under-explored in the area of digital bodily play. To investigate how vertigo could be considered as a design resource in this context, we conducted a review of relevant literature and held a design workshop with nine students to explore the potential of vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play. From our exploration we identify five key design themes that designers might consider when designing a Vertigo Experience. Through this work we hope to encourage designers of bodily play experiences to consider vertigo as a design resource in their games.

Citation

Byrne, R., Marshall, J., & Mueller, F. ‘. (2016). Designing the vertigo experience: vertigo as a design resource for digital bodily play. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839465

• Conference Name: TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction
• Conference Location: New York, USA
• Start Date: Feb 14, 2016
• End Date: Feb 17, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Nov 10, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 14, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 19, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 19, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-3582-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839465
• Keywords: Vertigo, Play, Game design, Body
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/776361
• Publisher URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2839462.2839465
• Additional Information: Published in Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Eindhoven, Netherlands February 14 - 17, 2016. New York: ACM, 2016. 978-1-4503-3582-9