FishPong

Published 6 November 2004

Jennifer Yoon, Jun Oishi, Jason Nawyn, Kazue Kobayashi, Neeti Gupta

Citations34

TL;DR

FishPong is introduced, an interactive system designed to stimulate informal computer-supported cooperative play in public spaces such as coffeehouses and cafés that allows users to control a fish-themed video game using magnetically tagged coffee cups.

Abstract

In this paper we introduce FishPong, an interactive system designed to stimulate informal computer-supported cooperative play (CSCP) in public spaces such as coffeehouses and cafés. FishPong consists of a tabletop tangible user interface (TUI) that allows users to control a fish-themed video game using magnetically tagged coffee cups. FishPong has been designed as an "icebreaker" technology to encourage spontaneous social interaction among coffeehouse patrons. This work serves as an example of how environments might be subtly and unobtrusively augmented in order to facilitate informal human-to-human interaction.

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Computer ScienceSocial Sciences

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