Weathergods: tangible interaction in a digital tabletop game

Authors:
Saskia Bakker;Debby Vorstenbosch;Elise van den Hoven;Gerard Hollemans;Tom Bergman
Affiliations:
Eindhoven University of Technology, MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands;Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, AE Eindhoven, the Netherlands;Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, AE Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the game 'Weathergods', which is implemented on the Entertaible tabletop gaming platform [1]. The game uses either iconic or symbolic [2] tangible objects for interaction and marries both the advantages of traditional board games and computer games.