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AHFE 2021: Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology pp 265–273Cite as

Joining Battles with Mouse: How Gaming Mouse Connects the Virtual World and Body

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Gaming mice are closely related to the intricate interpersonal interactions in online games, in which multicolored images and visually enhanced characteristics support the user’s imagination of the cyber space. Gaming mice have various complicated designs for different online games, such as first-person shooter games (FPS), strategy games, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), etc. As for the construction of their unique features, a dynamic illustration was given by using qualitative analysis in this study. In computer games, the player can see many interesting correlations between gestures and game actions. The gaming mouse is designed to be complex in response to the player’s body movements. To sum up, the different visual elements and control devices in the human-computer interface are used to compensate for the “cybernetic loss” during the process of dematerialization. In addition, players develop their own body strategies that can coordinate the form of the mouse and integrate them into the virtual imaginary world.

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  • Gaming mouse
  • Online game
  • Human-computer interaction

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This research is part of the Ministry of Science and Technology granted project, Republic of China, Taiwan. (MOST 106–2410-H-224–013).

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  1. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, 64002, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Ju-Joan Wong & Jian-Liang Liu

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    Dr. Tareq Z. Ahram

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    Christianne S. Falcão

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Wong, JJ., Liu, JL. (2021). Joining Battles with Mouse: How Gaming Mouse Connects the Virtual World and Body. In: Ahram, T.Z., Falcão, C.S. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80091-8_31

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