Exploring interpersonal touch in computer games
Cody Watts, Ehud Sharlin, Peter Woytiuk · 2008
Acts of interpersonal touch are used by couples to communicate with their partner in a simple, lightweight and emotionally significant way. In this abstract, we briefly present our motivation and initial design approach for Matchmaker -- a cooperative, romantically-themed game for tabletop computers which integrates acts of interpersonal into its game mechanics.