Playing it Real:  Magic Lens and Static Peephole Interfaces for Games in a Public Space

Jens  Grubert; Ann Morrison; Helmut Munz; Gerhard  Reitmayr

doi:10.1145/2371574.2371609

Playing it Real: Magic Lens and Static Peephole Interfaces for Games in a Public Space

Jens Grubert, Ann Morrison, Helmut Munz, Gerhard Reitmayr

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Abstract

Magic lens and static peephole interfaces are used in numerous consumer mobile phone applications such as Augmented Reality browsers, games or digital map applications in a variety of contexts including public spaces. Interface performance has been evaluated for various interaction tasks involving spatial relationships in a scene. However, interface usage outside laboratory conditions has not been considered in depth in the evaluation of these interfaces.
We present findings about the usage of magic lens and static peephole interfaces for playing a find-and-select game in a public space and report on the reactions of the public audience to participants’ interactions.
Contrary to our expectations participants favored the magic lens over a static peephole interface despite tracking errors, fatigue and potentially conspicuous gestures. Most passersby did not pay attention to the participants and vice versa. A comparative laboratory experiment revealed only few differences in system usage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	Sept 2012
Pages	231-240
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1105-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371609
Publication status	Published - Sept 2012
Event	MobileHCI2012 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 21 Sept 2012 → 24 Sept 2012

Conference

Conference	MobileHCI2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	21/09/2012 → 24/09/2012

Keywords

Augmented Reality; Static Peephole, Magic Lens, Field Trial

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Grubert, J., Morrison, A., Munz, H., & Reitmayr, G. (2012). Playing it Real: Magic Lens and Static Peephole Interfaces for Games in a Public Space. In MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (pp. 231-240 ). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371609

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Grubert, J, Morrison, A, Munz, H & Reitmayr, G 2012, Playing it Real: Magic Lens and Static Peephole Interfaces for Games in a Public Space. in MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 231-240 , MobileHCI2012, San Francisco, United States, 21/09/2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371609

Playing it Real: Magic Lens and Static Peephole Interfaces for Games in a Public Space. / Grubert, Jens ; Morrison, Ann; Munz, Helmut et al.
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012. p. 231-240 .

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