Many people struggle to exercise regularly, raising the risk of serious health-related issues.
Extended reality (XR) exergames address these hurdles by combining physical exercises …

Background Multiplayer games have emerged as a promising approach to increase the
motivation of patients involved in rehabilitation therapy. In this systematic review, we …

Visual Novel (VN) is a widely recognizable genre of narrative-focused games that has grown
in popularity over the past decade. Surprisingly, despite being so widely recognizable, there …

Low-cost smartphone adapters can bring virtual reality to the masses, but input is typically
limited to using head tracking, which makes it difficult to perform complex tasks like …

Movement-based digital games are becoming increasingly popular, yet there is limited
comprehensive guidance on how to design these games. We present a set of guidelines for …

Educational serious games are primarily intended to teach about or train on a subject.
However, a serious game must also be catchy for the player to want to play it multiple times …

With this monograph we introduce a new, systematic taxonomy of Sports Interaction
Technology (Sports ITech) that defines a design space of existing and future work in this …

After a decade of movement-based interaction in human–computer interaction, designing for
the moving body still remains a challenge. Research in this field requires methods to help …

Spectating digital games can be exciting. However, due to its vicarious nature, spectators
often wish to engage in the gameplay beyond just watching and cheering. To blur the …

Idle games are a recent minimalist gaming phenomenon in which the game is left running
with little player interaction. We deepen understanding of idle games and their …