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held a lighter clipboard.4 Researchers found that study participants engaging in “mental
time travel” leaned forward when imagining the future and leaned backward when thinking
about the past.5 Three experiments showed that after participants do something charitable
or after they write about themselves doing something charitable or harmful to another,
participants hold a five-pound weight longer than they did before.6 In other studies,
participants who remembered and wrote down a regret, sealed the inscribed paper in an
envelope, and handed the paper to the questioner felt less negative about that event than
participants who returned the paper to the questioner without first enclosing it in an
envelope.7 An experiment showed that people who received good news while seated with
slumped heads and shoulders reported feeling less proud and being in a worse mood than
those who received good news while seated with their head and shoulders held high.8
4 NB Jostmann, D Lakens, and T Schubert, ‘Weight as an Embodiment of Importance’ in
Psychological Science Vol. 20 No. 9 pp. 1169-1174. J Ackerman, C Nocera, and JA Bargh,
‘Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions’ in Science Vol. 328
(25 June 2010) pp. 1712-1715.
5 L Miles, L Nind, and CN Macrae, ‘Moving Through Time’ in Psychological Science Vol.
21, No. 2, pp. 222-223.
6 K Gray, ‘Moral Transformation: Good and Evil Turn the Weak into the Mighty’ in
Social Psychological and Personality Science 2010 Vol. 1, pp. 253-258.
7 X Li, L Wei, and D Soman, ‘Sealing the Emotions Genie: The Effects of Physical
Enclosure on Psychological Enclosure’ in Psychological Science Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 1047-
1050.
8 S Stepper, and F Strack, ‘Proprioceptive Determinants of Emotional and Nonemotional
Feelings’ in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Vol. 64, No. 2 (February 1993) pp.
211-220. Cited in PM Niedenthal, ‘Embodying Emotion’ in Science Vol. 316 (18 May
2007) pp. 1002-1005.
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 |
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| Title | Page 13 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 6 held a lighter clipboard.4 Researchers found that study participants engaging in “mental time travel” leaned forward when imagining the future and leaned backward when thinking about the past.5 Three experiments showed that after participants do something charitable or after they write about themselves doing something charitable or harmful to another, participants hold a five-pound weight longer than they did before.6 In other studies, participants who remembered and wrote down a regret, sealed the inscribed paper in an envelope, and handed the paper to the questioner felt less negative about that event than participants who returned the paper to the questioner without first enclosing it in an envelope.7 An experiment showed that people who received good news while seated with slumped heads and shoulders reported feeling less proud and being in a worse mood than those who received good news while seated with their head and shoulders held high.8 4 NB Jostmann, D Lakens, and T Schubert, ‘Weight as an Embodiment of Importance’ in Psychological Science Vol. 20 No. 9 pp. 1169-1174. J Ackerman, C Nocera, and JA Bargh, ‘Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions’ in Science Vol. 328 (25 June 2010) pp. 1712-1715. 5 L Miles, L Nind, and CN Macrae, ‘Moving Through Time’ in Psychological Science Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 222-223. 6 K Gray, ‘Moral Transformation: Good and Evil Turn the Weak into the Mighty’ in Social Psychological and Personality Science 2010 Vol. 1, pp. 253-258. 7 X Li, L Wei, and D Soman, ‘Sealing the Emotions Genie: The Effects of Physical Enclosure on Psychological Enclosure’ in Psychological Science Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 1047- 1050. 8 S Stepper, and F Strack, ‘Proprioceptive Determinants of Emotional and Nonemotional Feelings’ in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Vol. 64, No. 2 (February 1993) pp. 211-220. Cited in PM Niedenthal, ‘Embodying Emotion’ in Science Vol. 316 (18 May 2007) pp. 1002-1005. |
