Developing Iconic and Semi-Iconic Game Controllers
Lennart Nacke, João Costa, Dennis Kappen, James Robb, and Daniel Buckstein. 2014. Developing Iconic and Semi-Iconic Game Controllers. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 435-436. doi:10.1145/2658537.2661327
Abstract
We propose the notion of semi-iconic game input (i.e., sharing some properties of game objects instead of being a complete iconic representation of them) and investigate influence of controller representation on player experience. In particular, we developed game controllers at different degrees of realism (symbolic, semi-iconic, and iconic). We present the developed controllers and initial usability findings.