Hunting for fun: solitude and attentiveness in collaboration

The design of online collaborative computer games and pervasive games can learn from the everyday practice of deer hunting. We present an ethnographic study revealing how hunters fine-tune their experience through temporal and spatial organization. The hunt is organized in a way that allows the hunters to balance between forms of collaboration ranging from solitude to face-to-face interaction, as well as between attentiveness and relaxation. Thus, the hunters deal with the task

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Oskar Juhlin, Alexandra Weilenmann
• Keywords: ACM Classification Keywords, CSCW 2008, Hunters, Pervasive Games, Social Sciences