Towards the next generation of gamingwearables

Abstract

Recent studies on gaming wearables show that wearables can contribute to the gaming experience by bolstering performativity, facilitating social interaction, and accommodating distinct interaction modalities. Still, these studies focused on contexts such as role-playing, casual, or festival games. Stakeholder-oriented research that explores the integration of wearables for mainstream gaming platforms such as game consoles is scarce. To fll this gap, we have conducted an exploratory study through 6 participatory design workshops focusing on diferent aspects of wearables with 33 participants from diferent stakeholders. As a result, we have created ffteen design themes and three gaming wearable concepts that led to seven actionable design implications which can be adopted by designers and researchers for designing gaming wearables.