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The Future of Interactivity in Console Gaming

Anders Cheung email

Thesis Statement

Thesis

Interaction between player and console games has recently evolved from using physical controllers to using natural user interfaces. To what extent has this evolution improved interactivity and what does this change imply for the future of console gaming?

Keywords

games, theory, user experience, video-games, affective computing, applications, design, emotion recognition, emotions, human-computer interaction, sensing, theories

Bibliography

E.H.C.Gamez, P.Cairns, A.L.Cox, "From the gaming experience to the wider user experience", 2009 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1671011.1671078&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=109455192&CFTOKEN=35336188

C.Peter, E.Crane, M.Fabri, H.Agius, L.Axelrod, "Emotion in HCI: designing for people”, 2008 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531826.1531883&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=109455192&CFTOKEN=35336188

J.Canny, “The Future of Human-Computer Interaction”, 2006 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1147530

F. Kaplan, "Are gesture-based interfaces the future of human computer interaction?", 2009 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1647314.1647365&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=106466583&CFTOKEN=60736137

IO2Technology, heliodisplay, http://www.io2technology.com/salesinquiry.php

The Video Game Console Library, "History of the Game Controller", 2008, http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/art-controller.htm

Research Notes

History

Early Controllers

Atari 2600 Joysticks

Bally Astrocade

80's & 90's Controllers

Nintendo D-pad + Joypads

Sega Genesis + Saturn

Sony Playstation

Nintendo N64

Sony Dual Shock

2000 Controllers

Sega Dreamcast

Sony Playstation 2

Microsoft Xbox

Nintendo Gamecube

Wireless Gameplay

Sony EyeToy

Microsoft Xbox 360

Sony Playstation 3

Nintendo Wiimote + Nunchuk

Microsoft Kinect

Sony Playstation Move

Recorded Details

The History of Console Gaming

Big players in the gaming industry

- Atari

- Nintendo + Sega

- Sony + Microsoft

Discuss

1. The evolution of interaction for each company using specific console systems and showing how they’ve changed over the years to improve interactivity.

2. The features improving health and safety for video games.