Mixed Reality Boardgames

Hidden Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Games Engineering Bachelor Master Project Thesis Games Research Lab

XRoads explores novel and multimodal interaction techniques for tabletop games. It focusses Mixed Reality platforms that combine touch, speech, and gestures as input modalities for turn-based and real-time strategy games.

Future goals of this project are listed below. These general directions are concretized during the initial meeting towards an individual thesis or project topic by taking into account the required module’s extend as well as personal preferences and ideas. Feel free to ask for a non-committal meeting.

• Conceptual and technical implementation of additional (multimodal) interaction techniques, in particular speech and gesture interactions using consumer hardware like Microsoft Kinect, Razor Hydra or DICE+.
• Implementation of further existing (tabletop) game mechanics.
• Exploration of new game mechanics, that are solely feasible in a mixed reality setup.
• Comparison of alternative interaction techniques (e.g. rolling a via touch vs. gesture vs. DICE+).
• Continuative studies that research the difference in the user’s experience between the original tabletop game and a cross reality version.

Requirements

• Practical programming skills, e.g.
  • Introductory Programming Course
  • Introductory Programming Course
  • Programming Course Interface Development
• Interest in novel interaction techniques
• Interest in Real-time Interactive Systems (RIS)
• Beneficial Modules
  • Interactive Computer Graphics
  • Real-time Interactive Systems
  • 3D User Interfaces

Additional Information and Media

• XRoads project page

Contact Persons at the University Würzburg