Project IRL: Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented Reality

We present Project IRL (In Real Life), a suite of five mobile apps we created to explore novel ways supporting in-person social interactions with augmented reality. In recent years, the tone public discourse surrounding digital technology has become increasingly critical, and technology's influence on way people relate each other been blamed for making feel "alone together," diverting their attention from truly engaging one another when they interact in person. Motivated by this challenge, focus an under-explored design space: playful co-located interactions. evaluated through deployment study that involved interviews participant observations 101 people. synthesized results into series guidelines four themes: (1) device arrangement (e.g., are sharing phone, or does person have own?), (2) enablers should activity object, body part, pet?), (3) affordances modifying reality (i.e., features enhance its potential encourage various aspects interaction), (4) play using make inviting). conclude presenting our future work embodied AR.