ThermoGame: video game interaction system that offers dynamic temperature sensation to users

Today, many researchers reports studies about haptic, tactile or tangible art and entertainment. Particularly about temperature sensation, few interaction system has ever been presented because of it does not have good responsiveness. In this study, we shall design the video game interaction system that uses temperature sensation to users. First of all we investigate the relation of the rapidity of temperature change and user response time by using prototyped controller. Our game controller can offer temperature to users dynamically according to game situations. As a result, It was able to propose a basis of interaction system to take the temperate sensation to the game interaction.