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Abstract
The enormous transformation in how humans engage with technologies – providing direct
access through touch or gesture, without any mediating controller – has just reached
mainstream computing, games and home theaters, with the recent releases of the Kinect
and the WAVI Xtion. This change has opened up huge new opportunities for the design
of games, interactive experiences and applications. This paper presents the evidence of the
connection between the body and perceptions, emotions, and mental states; the powerful,
extensive, and surprising ways those connections are manifest; and the unexpected and very
potent role that metaphor plays. This paper then presents how that evidence points to a way
of employing the emotional and cognitive armature attached to human movement as a
means of developing emotionally compelling gestural game-play.
Object Description
| Title | Toward a theory of gesture design |
| Author | Tucker, Diane |
| Author email | diane.tucker@gmail.com; dmtucker@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Interactive Media |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05-02 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Bolas, Mark |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Fullerton, Tracy Kratky, Andreas Malamed, Laird |
| Abstract | The enormous transformation in how humans engage with technologies – providing direct access through touch or gesture, without any mediating controller – has just reached mainstream computing, games and home theaters, with the recent releases of the Kinect and the WAVI Xtion. This change has opened up huge new opportunities for the design of games, interactive experiences and applications. This paper presents the evidence of the connection between the body and perceptions, emotions, and mental states; the powerful, extensive, and surprising ways those connections are manifest; and the unexpected and very potent role that metaphor plays. This paper then presents how that evidence points to a way of employing the emotional and cognitive armature attached to human movement as a means of developing emotionally compelling gestural game-play. |
| Keyword | game design; gesture; gestural vocabulary; gestural design; gesture design; user interface design; human computer interaction; human centered computing; emotion in games; design; metaphor |
| Coverage date | 1990/2011 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3891 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Tucker, Diane |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-tucker-4587 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-tucker-4587.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 7 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | vii Abstract The enormous transformation in how humans engage with technologies – providing direct access through touch or gesture, without any mediating controller – has just reached mainstream computing, games and home theaters, with the recent releases of the Kinect and the WAVI Xtion. This change has opened up huge new opportunities for the design of games, interactive experiences and applications. This paper presents the evidence of the connection between the body and perceptions, emotions, and mental states; the powerful, extensive, and surprising ways those connections are manifest; and the unexpected and very potent role that metaphor plays. This paper then presents how that evidence points to a way of employing the emotional and cognitive armature attached to human movement as a means of developing emotionally compelling gestural game-play. |
