@inproceedings{freeman2012the, author = {Freeman, Dustin and Hilliges, Otmar and Sellen, Abigail and O'Hara, Kenton and Izadi, Shahram}, title = {The role of physical controllers in motion video gaming}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)}, year = {2012}, month = {June}, abstract = {Systems that detect the unaugmented human body allow players to interact without using a physical controller. But how is interaction altered by the absence of a physical input device? What is the impact on game performance, on a player’s expectation of their ability to control the game, and on their game experience? In this study, we investigate these issues in the context of a table tennis video game. The results show that the impact of holding a physical controller, or indeed of the fidelity of that controller, does not appear in simple measures of performance. Rather, the difference between controllers is a function of the responsiveness of the game being controlled, as well as other factors to do with expectations, real world game experience and social context.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/the-role-of-physical-controllers-in-motion-video-gaming/}, }