Mobile gaming with indirect sensor control

Authors:
Daniel Böhrs;Dirk Wenig;Rainer Malaka
Affiliations:
Research Group Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Research Group Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Research Group Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Venue:
ICEC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Year:
2012

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Abstract

The rapid growth of the mobile gaming market and the steadily improved hardware of mobile phones enable developers to create complex and extensive 3D games on mobile phones. While most current casual games have simple interfaces with few buttons, 3D games require new control interfaces to providing sufficient control options without limiting the field of view on the screen. This is important to improve the user experience. Within this work new ideas based on the use of the accelerometer as indirect control mechanism are presented. The accelerometer is used to switch between different interaction layers, which are also different game views for the player. Combined with this concept a buttonless touch area interface is used. We are planning to evaluate the ideas with a 3D game prototype running on Android devices.