The "Universal Threshold Object" is a tangible device for television-like interactive narratives based on the TV show American Horror Story. The project uses gestural interactions with a tangible controller that provides haptic feedback as an interaction strategy to augment the narrative pleasures of immersion and dramatic agency. We leverage a branching scenario and story-driven gestural interaction with haptic feedback to provide limited sets of interactivity suitable for a television platform. From our research, design goals, and design process, we provide design implications for interactive narratives that employ gestural and haptic interactions.
['Jean Ho Chu', 'Paul Clifton', 'Hank Blumenthal', 'Abhishek Nandakumar', 'Balasubramanium Ganapathi', 'Janet H. Murray', 'Ali Mazalek']
Universal Threshold Object: Designing Haptic Interaction for Televised Interactive Narratives