TY - CPAPER
KW - inexperienced users
KW - serious games
KW - gamepad
KW - 3D games
KW - user performance
AU - Tobias Wentzlaff
AU - Felix Janke
AU - Mats Kockmeyer
AU - Sascha Reinhold
AU - Michael Teistler
AB - Common approaches for gamepad-based navigation in desktop 3D games are often not suited for inexperienced players. In particular, novices have difficulties in simultaneously controlling movement and viewing direction in a virtual 3D scene. Here, we compare the currently predominant 3D navigation approach with an alternative approach that is inspired by early 3D games. 20 test users with little or no 3D gaming experience used both approaches to walk along a test course in a virtual 3D scene containing different obstacles. Using the alternative navigation approach, the users finished the course faster and with fewer errors than with the predominant navigation approach. In addition, the pragmatic and the hedonic quality of the alternative approach were rated higher. As a conclusion, the presented alternative approach should be given consideration when designing 3D (serious) games or similar applications for inexperienced players, not only for gamepad-based navigation, but also for comparable interfaces like the typical combination of keyboard and mouse control.
BT - Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch Und Computer
CY - New York, NY, USA
DO - 10.1145/3404983.3410018
N2 - Common approaches for gamepad-based navigation in desktop 3D games are often not suited for inexperienced players. In particular, novices have difficulties in simultaneously controlling movement and viewing direction in a virtual 3D scene. Here, we compare the currently predominant 3D navigation approach with an alternative approach that is inspired by early 3D games. 20 test users with little or no 3D gaming experience used both approaches to walk along a test course in a virtual 3D scene containing different obstacles. Using the alternative navigation approach, the users finished the course faster and with fewer errors than with the predominant navigation approach. In addition, the pragmatic and the hedonic quality of the alternative approach were rated higher. As a conclusion, the presented alternative approach should be given consideration when designing 3D (serious) games or similar applications for inexperienced players, not only for gamepad-based navigation, but also for comparable interfaces like the typical combination of keyboard and mouse control.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
PP - New York, NY, USA
PY - 2020
SN - 9781450375405
EP - 165–168
T2 - Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch Und Computer
TI - Navigation in Desktop 3D Games with Gamepads: Comparison of Two Approaches for Inexperienced Players
UR - https://doi.org/10.1145/3404983.3410018
ER -