Researchers

Lisa Freiman Cormier

Master's Student and UX Researcher

Publications

Year 2019

Crushed it!: Interactive Floor Demonstration

@inproceedings{Wehbe:2019:CIF:3290607.3313279,
 author = {Wehbe, Rina R. and Bornemann, Kai and Hatscher, Benjamin and Tu, Joseph and Cormier, Lisa F. and Hansen, Christian and Lank, Edward and Nacke, Lennart E.},
 title = {Crushed It!: Interactive Floor Demonstration},
 booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 series = {CHI EA '19},
 year = {2019},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-5971-9},
 location = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk},
 pages = {INT014:1--INT014:4},
 articleno = {INT014},
 numpages = {4},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3290607.3313279},
 doi = {10.1145/3290607.3313279},
 acmid = {3313279},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {collaboration, exergames, gaming, human-centered computing, interaction techniques, interactive floor},
} 

We introduce Crushed It!, an interactive game on a sensor floor. This floor is combined with a multiple projector system to reduce occlusions from players' interactions with the floor. Individual displays, an HTC Vive to track player position, and smart watches were added to provide an extra layer of interactivity. We created this interactive experience to explore collaboration between people when interacting with large displays. We contribute a novel combination of different technologies for this game system and our studies showed this game is both entertaining and provides players with motivation to stay physically active. We believe presenting at interactivity would be a benefit to both our research and to the attendees of CHI 2019.

The Development of" Orbit" The Collaborative BCI Game for Children with AD (H) D

@inproceedings{arrambide2019development,
  title={The Development of" Orbit" The Collaborative BCI Game for Children with AD (H) D},
  author={Arrambide, Karina and Freiman Cormier, Lisa and Wehbe, Rina R and Nacke, Lennart E and Gabele, Mareike and Wagner, Sebastian and Hansen, Christian},
  booktitle={Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts},
  pages={341--348},
  year={2019}
}

Children with Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder or AD(H)D can require treatment for which they need to experience long-lasting neurofeedback sessions. Children might not adhere to at-home treatment activities because of the nature of these sessions; thus, not getting the benefits of the program. To increase adherence and effectiveness of the treatment itself, we propose neurofeedback gaming and social encouragement. Our hypothesis is that by playing a collaborative neurofeedback game, children will be more adherent to their treatment and therefore derive a stronger benefit. For this purpose we designed the game "Orbit", a first multiplayer prototype that was evaluated in a pilot study with five neuropsychologists. It was found that collaborative multiplayer games are suitable from a therapeutic standpoint and long-term use because of its higher social motivation and collaboration between children with AD(H)D; albeit there are some drawbacks including unreliability of electroencephalography (EEG) input and the risk for the collaborative environment to be distracting for the player.