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Traditional games like "Tag" rely on shared control via inter-body interactions (IBIs) – touching, pushing, and pulling – that foster emotional and social connection. Digital games largely limit IBIs, with players using their bodies as input to control ...

Experts emphasise that maintaining a healthy gut microbial balance requires the public to understand factors beyond diet, such as physical activity, lifestyle, and other real-world influences. Games as experiential systems are known to foster playful ...

The size and cost of electroencephalography (EEG) headsets have been decreasing at a steadfast pace. Prefrontal cortical activity is a promising input source that is also important for affect regulation. We created Joie, a joy-based EEG brain-computer ...

We designed Joie, a joy-based electroencephalography (EEG) brain-computer interface (BCI). Users interact with Joie by imagining joyous thoughts and images that alter their prefrontal EEG asymmetries. These asymmetries control their character’s movement ...

Spectating digital games can be exciting. However, due to its vicarious nature, spectators often wish to engage in the gameplay beyond just watching and cheering. To blur the boundaries between spectators and players, we propose a novel approach called "...

Body-actuating technologies such as Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) can actuate multiple players simultaneously via physical touch. To investigate this opportunity, we designed a game called “Touchmate”. Here, one guesser and two suspects sit ...