Sports over a distance Export

@article{Mueller2005, abstract = {Computer games lack the social bonding and collective physical exercise benefits that sports provide. To overcome these limitations, we have been investigating how to apply the benefits of sport, in particular the workout and social bonding effect, in a distributed setting. We designed, developed, and evaluated Breakout for Two, which allows people who are miles apart to play a physically exhausting ball game together. We had over a thousand players who interacted through a life-size video-conference screen using a regular soccer ball as an input device. In an evaluative study, 56 players were interviewed and said that they got to know the other player better, had more fun, became better friends, and were happier with the transmitted audio and video quality in comparison to those who played the same game using a nonexertion keyboard interface. These results suggest that sports over a distance is an exciting new field with an "exertion interface" that encourages remote interaction, where players can achieve both a work-out and socializing.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mueller, Florian '. and Agamanolis, Stefan}, citeulike-article-id = {3341213}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1077261}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1077246.1077261}, doi = {10.1145/1077246.1077261}, issn = {1544-3574}, journal = {Comput. Entertain.}, keywords = {ball, distance, entertainment, game, interaction, sports, wall}, number = {3}, pages = {4}, posted-at = {2008-09-26 22:10:32}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Sports over a distance}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1077246.1077261}, volume = {3}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Mueller2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3341213 N2 - Computer games lack the social bonding and collective physical exercise benefits that sports provide. To overcome these limitations, we have been investigating how to apply the benefits of sport, in particular the workout and social bonding effect, in a distributed setting. We designed, developed, and evaluated Breakout for Two, which allows people who are miles apart to play a physically exhausting ball game together. We had over a thousand players who interacted through a life-size video-conference screen using a regular soccer ball as an input device. In an evaluative study, 56 players were interviewed and said that they got to know the other player better, had more fun, became better friends, and were happier with the transmitted audio and video quality in comparison to those who played the same game using a nonexertion keyboard interface. These results suggest that sports over a distance is an exciting new field with an "exertion interface" that encourages remote interaction, where players can achieve both a work-out and socializing. IS - 3 JF - Comput. Entertain. SN - 1544-3574 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 4 TI - Sports over a distance PB - ACM VL - 3 SP - 4 KW - ball KW - distance KW - entertainment KW - game KW - interaction KW - sports KW - wall AU - Mueller, Florian AU - Agamanolis, Stefan PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1077246.1077261 ER -