BragFish paper got accepted by ACE08

Congratulations~ I will attach the full paper and video later.

Abstract:

In this paper, we present our research on social interaction in colocated handheld augmented reality (AR) games. These games are characterized by shared physical spaces which promote physical awareness between players and individual gaming devices which support both public and private information. One result of our exploration of the design and evaluation of such games is a prototype called BragFish. Through BragFish, we aim to investigate the connections between the observed game experience (focusing on social and physical interaction) and the designed affordances of our AR handheld game. Our evaluation of
BragFish shows that most of the 18 players form strategies for social play by leveraging visual, aural and physical cues from the shared space. Moreover, we use this as an example to motivate discussions on how to improve social play experiences for colocated handheld games by designing for shared spaces.

Reference:
Yan Xu, Maribeth Gandy, Sami Deen, Brian Schrank, Kim Spreen, Michael Gorbsky, Timothy White, Evan Barba, Iullian Radu, Jay Bolter, Blair MacIntyre, BragFish: Exploring Physical and Social Interaction in
Co-located Handheld Augmented Reality Games, International conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology, ACM Press, 2008.