A master thesis from Aalborg University
Using Tangible Widgets for Travel in a Touch-Based Tablet Game with a Scrolling Camera
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2016
Submitted on
2016-05-25
Pages
62 pages
Abstract
Tangible widgets have been used in the context of touch-based games for children, where widgets represent game avatars that players control with the widget. Due to a lack of prior research in this field, this thesis investigates problems based on an initial study where children play the game Disney AppMATes, which uses a scrolling camera. In this game, players control a virtual car using a widget. In the initial study, it was found that children had a desire to drive on roads. However, roads were often difficult to drive on because of the view of the scrolling camera. This thesis proposes a range of solutions to the problems found in the initial study, but focuses on the above-mentioned problem for which a solution called Road Focus was designed. Through an experiment with 64 participants in ages 5-7, it was found that Road Focus is a significant improvement to the solution used in AppMATes.
Keywords
Tangible widgets ; Widgets ; AppMATes ; iPad
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