Within the "Go, WannaGo!" project, a meeting was held on August 19 at the premises of the Technical University of Munich. The core content of the meeting was updates on technological developments. Prospects for future research projects and cooperations in the field of "physical e-sports" were also discussed - both with national and international project partners from the sectors of science, technology and textile development and the gaming industry. This made it possible to outline the strategy until the end of the project period and the months thereafter.
The "Go, WannaGo!" project also recently resulted in a joint publication by the project team, in which our colleagues Dr. Christoph Mall and Jan Ellinger were also involved.
The publication presents a practice-based design and research approach that was used to explore individual, contextual, and institutional requirements, conceptualize and design Augemented-Reality-based Outdoor-scenarios for individual and joint activities in outdoor sports. Based on the need for social interaction and computer-supported collaborative sports and the decreasing physical activity across all ages, game scenarios for the context of outdoor sports were formulated and implemented with a head-worn multimodal AR interface. Members from seven different sports associations were interviewed and design workshops conducted to understand how to design AR-applications to promote an active lifestyle. The prototype and approach presented here will serve to discuss and reflect our future research activities, methodological concepts, and experiences in the field of Human-Computer-Interaction and Design Communities.
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Unbehaun, D., Mall, C., Ellinger, J., Coskun, A., Jensen, J., Aal, K., Rüller, S., Eckehard, M., Meixner, C., Plangger, U. & Wulf, V. (2022). Augmented-Reality Approaches in Computer Supported Collaborative Sports: Early Empirical Insights explored from and designed with Sport Associations. Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 6(2). https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4392