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Designing for depth: underwater play

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Sarah Jane Pell,

Florian 'Floyd' MuellerAuthors Info & Claims

IE '13: Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death

Article No.: 24, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2513002.2513036

Published: 30 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The underwater domain is an alluring 'other world', inviting of human-aquatic interactivity and bodily play and yet it is also an extreme environment as it is inhospitable to support human life without external air-supply. Playful interactions are therefore matters of life and death in the underwater domain. We correlated data on human-aquatic interactions and narcosis with a range of game design principals to produce a design pallet for digital underwater play from water level to 30m depth. We also present a proof-of-concept system called Gravity Well as an exemplary research tool. Through our work, we aim to inspire other researchers and designers to consider creating digital play in and under water.

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IE '13: Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death

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ISBN:9781450322546

DOI:10.1145/2513002

Conference Chairs:
Stefan Greuter
RMIT University
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