2016
Emily S. Cramer, Brendan B. Matkin, Alissa N. Antle. 2016. Embodying Alternate Attitudes: Design Opportunities for Physical Interfaces in Persuasive Gaming Experiences Proceedings Article . In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '16 Association for Computing Machinery, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 404–409, .
@inproceedings{10.1145/2839462.2856525,
title = {Embodying Alternate Attitudes: Design Opportunities for Physical Interfaces in Persuasive Gaming Experiences},
author = {Emily S. Cramer and Brendan B. Matkin and Alissa N. Antle},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2856525},
doi = {10.1145/2839462.2856525},
isbn = {9781450335829},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},
pages = {404–409},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Eindhoven, Netherlands},
series = {TEI '16},
abstract = {The ability to view issues through alternate attitudes is an increasingly valuable skill. Persuasive games provide users an opportunity to practice adopting alternate attitudes, but users' pre-existing attitudes can get in the way. Multi-player games can use collaboration to help users overcome their pre-existing attitudes, but techniques for single-player games are lacking. In this paper we suggest that physical interface features (e.g., temperature) could be used to prime alternate attitudes in users. Embodied metaphor theory provides a framework for relating physical characteristics of an interface to more abstract concepts like emotions and beliefs. To empirically validate our design concept, we instantiate it in Thermouse: a temperature-controlled mouse that serves as a research instrument to assess whether interface temperature can help users explore alternate attitudes towards divisive humanitarian issues.},
keywords = {embodied metaphor, persuasive media, physical priming, theory},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
The ability to view issues through alternate attitudes is an increasingly valuable skill. Persuasive games provide users an opportunity to practice adopting alternate attitudes, but users' pre-existing attitudes can get in the way. Multi-player games can use collaboration to help users overcome their pre-existing attitudes, but techniques for single-player games are lacking. In this paper we suggest that physical interface features (e.g., temperature) could be used to prime alternate attitudes in users. Embodied metaphor theory provides a framework for relating physical characteristics of an interface to more abstract concepts like emotions and beliefs. To empirically validate our design concept, we instantiate it in Thermouse: a temperature-controlled mouse that serves as a research instrument to assess whether interface temperature can help users explore alternate attitudes towards divisive humanitarian issues.