Paper Info
Title
Full body gestures enhancing a game book for interactive story telling
Abstract
Game Books can offer a well-written, but non-linear story, as readers always have to decide, how to continue after reading a text passage. It seems very logical to adopt such a book to investigate interaction paradigms for an interactive storytelling scenario. Nevertheless, it is not easy to keep the player motivated during a long-winded narrated story until the next point of intervention is reached. In this paper we tested different methods of implementing the decision process in such a scenario using speech input and tested it with 26 participants during a two player scenario. This revealed that with an omitted on-screen prompt the application was less easy to use, but caused considerably more user interaction. We further added additional interactivity with so-called Quick Time Events (QTEs). In these events, the player has a limited amount of time to perform a specific action after a corresponding prompt appeares on screen. Different versions of QTEs were implemented using Full Body Tracking with Microsoft Kinect, and were tested with another 18 participants during a two player scenario. We found that Full Body Gestures were easier to perform and, in general, preferred to controlling a cursor with one hand and hitting buttons with it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_23
ICIDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
corresponding prompt appeares,game book,full body gesture,non-linear story,full body tracking,different method,player scenario,long-winded narrated story,interaction paradigm,full body gestures,interactive storytelling scenario,different version,gesture recognition,kinect,user experience
Interactivity,User experience design,Gesture,Computer science,Gesture recognition,Human–computer interaction,Decision process,Interactive storytelling,Multimedia,Cursor (user interface)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.78
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felix Kistler115610.52
Dominik Sollfrank2131.12
Nikolaus Bee332924.77
Elisabeth André43634433.65