Large displays enhance game effect

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Large displays enhance game effect

• Dat Tien Nguyen
• Dr. Juan Pablo Hourcade
• May 08 2007

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Introduction

• The game industry grows rapidly nowadays and
  brings a new type of entertainment to people
• We can have very realistic games with high
  resolution
• Large screens are more and more popular
• While a lot of researches have been done to
  examine the effect of large screens in Virtual
  Environment studies, none of them examine the
  effect of Large Displays on Games
• ? this is what we can do for something new

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Related works

• Effect of large display on perception of human in
  Virtual Environment
• Jonathan Z. Bakdash at 1 suggested that Large
  Displays enhance Spatial Knowledge of a Virtual
  Environment
• Desney S. Tan at 2 suggested that Large
  displays also improve Spatial Tasks
• Emotions of people when playing games
• Regan L. Mandryk at 4 suggested a method of
  using physiological data to identify emotional
  states in interactive play environments

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Experiment

• Participants played game Doom 3 (first person
  shooting game) in two conditions with a 20 flat
  screen and with a 153 projected display
• Each condition lasted 10 minutes
• Participants answered a short questionnaire about
  their experience

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Experiment (cont.)

• Participants
• Seven participants (5 males and 2 females)
• The age ranges from 23 to 41 (average 29)
• All participants are familiar with graphic games
• Only one participant hadnt played first person
  shooting games before

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Experiment (cont.)

• Experiment setting and protocol
• In order to examine physical display size
  independent of field of view, the visual angle of
  both displays was fixed at 40o

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Experiment (cont.)
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Experiment (cont.)

• Play conditions
• Two conditions and two scenes (called A and B)
• We need to have a balance
• which condition played first
• which scene played with which condition
• To achieve this goal if P1 played scene A with
  small screen first, then P2 would played scene A
  with big screen first

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Results

• Most people felt more scared when playing with
  large screen than when playing with normal screen
• Most people felt more exciting when playing with
  large screen than when playing with normal screen
• Only one didnt Large screen led to motion
  sickness. While not a good result, it definitely
  added to the confusion and disorientation, which
  heightened the fear effect

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Results (cont.)
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Discussion and conclusion

• Large physical displays enhance game effect
• The result can be applied in
• Emergency training
• Virtual Environment studies
• Future works
• The effect of large displays in other types of
  games (simulation, role playing game )
• How to use other ways to tell when people are
  scared that doesn't involve asking them?
• What is the most effective size of screen?

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References

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• Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupellli and
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