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One-handed interface for multitouch-enabled real-time strategy games
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Crenshaw, Nicole Holloway, Alexandra Orzech, Scott Wong, Wai Son |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Historically, real-time strategy video games, such as Starcraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1999) and Command and Conquer (Westwood Studios, 1995), were intended to be played on desktop or laptop computers, with interfaces that afford the user dozens of keys and key combinations, mouse gestures including clicking and dragging, and several mouse buttons to further complicate the interface while allowing customization and a wide range of possibilities for the user. On a mobile multi-touch platform, there are constraints of limited visual real estate, shared with the touch command interface. Further constraints are presented when considering accessibility for players desiring one-handed operation. Game accessibility is a topic with a growing need, as those with disabilities are often unable to use commerciallyavailable games due to user interface restrictions. To date, there has not been a significant commercial effort to enhance the usability of strategy games’ touch interfaces by removing redundancies and tailoring the game commands to these multi-touch devices – especially for use with only one hand. In this paper, we present a rapidly-prototyped user-centered design in a ten-week project of a real-time strategy user interface native on the iPad. The contributions of this project are the ability of the user to use one hand to interact with the system, a multi-touch interface design, and the ability to cancel orders. We confirm the effectiveness of the user interface using one hand with a pilot study. Although we hoped to create a universally accessible user interface for a real-time strategy game for the iPad, we found that it is impossible to separate the user interface from a polished game with real features. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~fire/resources/Holloway2011OneHandedInterfaceForMultitouchEnabledRTS.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Holloway2011OneHandedInterfaceForMultitouchEnabledRTS.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://games.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Holloway2011OneHandedInterfaceForMultitouchEnabledRTS.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ga.fdg2011.org/papers/2.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
