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Design and evaluation of user’s physical experience in an Ambient Interactive Storybook and full body interaction games

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The paper presents the design and evaluation of an original Ambient Interactive Storybook (AIS) for children, including its platform, the background story, and 10 full body interactive games. The evaluation, which focused on the user’s physical experience and elements important to the designer, has been methodologically derived from the Kroflič’s and Laban’s framework Body, Space, Time and Relationship, and additionally supported by sport science measurements. An experiment with 8 participants playing 10 games for 20 min was conducted and recorded to a digital video. Participants’ physical experience was evaluated through the analysis of postures, the quality of the movement, the body parts used in the interaction, the playing area, the direction of movement, direction of gaze, tempo, dynamics and the quantity of motion (QoM). Results of the experiment are discussed in relation and with implications for game design. Conclusions are drawn with the summary of main findings, to better understand the mechanisms and principles involved the design of user’s physical activity in full body interactive games for children. The theoretical work of Laban and Kroflič proved to be useful for interaction and games design in the transition from desktop to full body interactive games.

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  1. Nintendo Wii uses Wiimote, a special remote control, which is usually controlled by a hand and not by the whole-body movement.

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Authors would like to thank Jožica Trateški, Tone Kregar and Andreja Rihter from The Museum of Recent History, Celje, Slovenia. Also thanks to Mateja Bizjak Petit, Lemora, Polona Dovžan, Russell Etheridge, Greg Childs, Matjaž Mlakar, Shyama Perera, Dan Scording, Colin Kavanagh, Special thanks to Tara, Tea, Pia, Maša, Iza, Lan, Nik, Jaka and Žiga and their parents.

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Koštomaj, M., Boh, B. Design and evaluation of user’s physical experience in an Ambient Interactive Storybook and full body interaction games. Multimed Tools Appl 54, 499–525 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0549-4

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