Rrrring & Play: Using a Rotary Dial Telephone as Game Controller

TUYISHIME, Barakura Thierry and Simone KRIGLSTEIN. Rrrring & Play: Using a Rotary Dial Telephone as Game Controller. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. USA: ACM, 2021, p. 382-385. ISBN 978-1-4503-8356-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483451.

Basic information

• Original name: Rrrring & Play: Using a Rotary Dial Telephone as Game Controller
• Authors: TUYISHIME, Barakura Thierry and Simone KRIGLSTEIN (40 Austria, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: USA, Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, p. 382-385, 4 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: ACM

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: ACM DL - paper
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/21:00125043
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-8356-1
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483451
• Keywords in English: game controller; video game; rotary dial; telephone; upcycling

Abstract

These days rotary dial telephones have almost been forgotten. Younger generations have never really used them and mostly only know them from movies or shows that are set in the past. The phones we use nowadays have adopted a different kind of interaction model and phones with rotary dials have become collectors items or are simply collecting dust in people’s basements. This paper tries to find novel use cases for these telephones by using them as game controller. To demonstrate the approach, the game Angry Birds 2 is selected as use case. Furthermore, a first user study to gather feedback regarding the intuitiveness and fun-factor of this approach was conducted.