Navigating a Maze with Balance Board and Wiimote

Wim Fikkert; Niek Hoeijmakers; Paul Vet; Anton Nijholt

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings

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Navigating a Maze with Balance Board and Wiimote

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_18,
    author={Wim Fikkert and Niek Hoeijmakers and Paul Vet and Anton Nijholt},
    title={Navigating a Maze with Balance Board and Wiimote},
    proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={H.5.2. User interfaces Evaluation Input devices and strategies},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_18}
}

Wim Fikkert
Niek Hoeijmakers
Paul Vet
Anton Nijholt
Year: 2012
Navigating a Maze with Balance Board and Wiimote
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_18

Wim Fikkert¹^,*, Niek Hoeijmakers¹^,*, Paul Vet¹^,*, Anton Nijholt¹^,*

1: University of Twente

*Contact email: f.w.fikkert@utwente.nl, n.j.hoeijmakers@utwente.nl, p.e.vandervet@utwente.nl, a.nijholt@utwente.nl

Abstract

Input from the lower body in human-computer interfaces can be beneficial, enjoyable and even entertaining when users are expected to perform tasks simultaneously. Users can navigate a virtual (game) world or even an (empirical) dataset while having their hands free to issue commands. We compared the Wii Balance Board to a hand-held Wiimote for navigating a maze and found that users completed this task slower with the Balance Board. However, the Balance Board was considered more intuitive, easy to learn and ‘much fun’.

Keywords: H.5.2. User interfaces Evaluation Input devices and strategies

Published: 2012-05-21

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_18