CFP & CEP aalto

CFP

Function: Aiming

Why:

aiming/moving are the two main functions

aiming is crucial function to manage in the game

aiming is very different between pc, regular console controller and PSmove/wii/gun controller

Task/setting:

-Simple aiming task: aim and click to blue circle in the screen, when caught, next one appears.

-Task lasts one minute.

-Practice about one minute before

Measure:

How many hits in one minute -> comparison between controllers

Results: see charts

CEP

Experience: Environment

Why:

Family room and Pc on office table are very different environments.

How does the environment matter?

What is it like to change the environment?

What are the meaningful factors in the environment?

How do the different factors affect the experience?

Setting:

-Basic setting in both environments (TV, Xbox, Sofa & Table, chair, pc, screen, keyboard, mouse)

-Key elements (our opinion, assumption based on the information gathered so far) are switched to make 6 more settings (see chart)

-videotaped

Measure:

-Interview

-how did it feel

-what was good

-what was bad

-what would you improve

-would you play like this home

-Geneva emotion wheel

Feedback:

With xbox controller feels more free

-hands are more free

-also when tv is closer head can be moved more?

He would be happy to change mouse to some kind of pointing device

Xbox controller just isn’t for playing first person shooting games

-it’s not accurate enough, “tattis” are terribly inaccurate

-vibration is nice for fun gaming (although it’s niin nähty)

No vibration or anything extra for keyboard and mouse!

-they are for more serious gaming (internet gaming with other ppl)

-all extra things like vibration take the concentration away from the game

Doesn’t like the Xbox controller auto focus, because it feels more like watching a movie (not that involved) - Anti-immersiveness?

We felt that he did really like the table sofa and said that he has not thought about it before.

Between the lines: would never change from keyboard in serious gaming

But: he also said that if xbox controller

-he was more excited with controller, he had more challenging experience with controller, pc was boring/familiar

Notes:

Xbox cd broke, be prepared well :)

Technical problems with audio

The table in sofa was too small -> can something be done so that does not affect the experiment?