Playing Toucher by Serge Bourchardon, Kevin Carpentier, and Stephanie Spenle, brought up a point that I hadn’t realized previous to playing it. When reading electronic literature, as opposed to reading physical literature, one part of the experience that is missing is the ability to physically touch what is being read. By playing this game, I was able to experience different…
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Controlling a hand by a mouse, microphone, or a webcame.
For my fourth checkpoint I tried many different games and looked at multiple digital poems until I finally found one that I liked, Toucher. Toucher “refers to physical act of touching and reflects upon the possibilities of developing haptic sensation in a digital environment.” Like another student in our class said a person controls this game by a “mouse, a…
Do you touch me when I touch you?
Using the internet is a bit like interacting with the real world whilst wearing a set of thick gloves. There is presence, there is material, but it is not to be interacted with first hand. A simulation of interaction can be achieved, but through a series of proxies: input gleaned from the mouse, keyboard, microphone, and webcam. Toucher by Serge…