Magic, Superpowers, or Empowerment? A Conceptual Framework for Magic Interaction Techniques

This poster presents an approach to systematically distinguish between interaction techniques (ITs) in the context of magic ITs in immersive virtual environments. Currently, heterogeneous terms are used in research to describe the concept of enhancing the abilities of users beyond the limits of the real world, such as magic, super-natural, hyper-natural, superhuman abilities, superpowers, augmentation or empowerment. As a first step towards clarifying and systematically defining the terminology, we propose using the orthogonal concepts of interalizability, congruence, and enhancement (or ICE-cube) as a simple yet expressive conceptual framework.