Title

Alone Together: Multiplayer online ball passing using Kinects - An experimental study

Authors

Tiffany Y. Tang, Wenzhou-Kean University
Yongfu Wang, Wenzhou-Kean University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2-28-2015

Abstract

We present Alone Together, an interactive online ball playing environment augmented with three sets of Kinects. The play environment attempts to simplify the real world ball-passing exercise (or rehabilitation sessions) except that the players can be miles away from each other, and they interact without a physical ball. Kinects are used to map players' action into a virtual world including the passing of the virtual ball. A small-scale experiment shows inexperienced players' acceptance over such virtual setting compared to the physical ball-passing game within a short playing duration.

Publication Title

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

First Page Number

187

Last Page Number

190

DOI

10.1145/2685553.2699003

Recommended Citation

Tang, Tiffany Y. and Wang, Yongfu, "Alone Together: Multiplayer online ball passing using Kinects - An experimental study" (2015). Kean Publications. 1872.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/keanpublications/1872