Tangible Interfaces Workshop​

Building arcade style video game controllers with embodied interactions

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The aim of the workshop was to sensitise the students towards electronics , tangible interfaces and video game appreciation. The workshop was structured in a manner where the participants get comfortable with prototyping quickly and iterate their designs while understanding the nature of the video games that they have been assigned to work with.

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The outcome of the workshop was 10 working / fully functional prototypes of the video game controllers.

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The overall structure of the workshop was as follows:

• Understanding Interaction Design (Theory part 1)

• Video Games as New Media Objects

• Introduction to simple electronics

• Video Game appreciation

• Understanding Interaction Design (Theory part 2)

• Visualising the interaction for the video game controller

• Prototyping the video game controller

• Presenting to the community

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My Role: Conceptualisation and Design of the workshop, Shortlisting appropriate video games and technology platforms, Delivery and facilitation of the workshop

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Facilitators : Abhinav Mishra, Vinay Hasija

UID Team: Sadasivan Riyer, Taral Shah

Participants: 5th Semester product design students,Unitedworld Institute of Design (UID)

Venue: UID

Image Credits: Aman Shrivastava and the 3rd year Product Design Students at UID

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**This page will be fully updated by 12 January 2018