The Haptic Arcade 2024

PDF article covering The Haptic Arcade Spring 2024, for the Occidental College Computer Science department.

"With the lights turned down low, a soundtrack of chill beats, and images advertising student games glowing from the projector screens on the walls, media classroom LIB 15 was transformed this Spring into a unique arcade. 

Presentations, poster sessions, and demos are an essential part of the Occidental Computer Science curriculum, and for Haptic Media (COMP/MAC 271, Professor Teddy Pozo), students tried to make this format as interactive and immersive as they could. The class studied the sense of touch from haptic technologies like vibrating video game controllers, ridefilms, and electric gaming vests, to the haptic aesthetics of video art, indie game design, and body genres like comedy and horror. For the Haptic Arcade, students had to combine some physical interaction or installation touching the user with the more ephemeral touch of texture, intersubjectivity, or other ways to touch the player’s feelings and emotions."

Many thanks to the amazing students of Haptic Media Spring 2024, and to Rayla Dominoe, the artist behind the poster!

Some of the projects discussed in the PDF are available to play or download online. Please check out:

- waking up by Mia Ellis

- Saving Dorado by Stephanie Cruz, Basho Fleming, Isa Ramos, and Diego Santiago 

-Nvisible by Kasio Dalton, Hannah Glueck, and Lavender Perry 

-Re:Imagine by Alyanna McGrath, Amylisha Mykyta, and Seolbin Hong