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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Game design principles in everyday fitness applications
The global obesity epidemic has prompted our community to explore the potential for technology to play a stronger role in promoting healthier lifestyles. Although there are severa...
Taj Campbell, Brian Ngo, James Fogarty
TABLETOP
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Affective Tabletop Game: A New Gaming Experience for Children
In this paper, we discuss various options for enhancing the gaming experience in augmented tabletop games. More specifically, we propose to incorporate psychophysiological measure...
Abdullah Al Mahmud, Omar Mubin, Johanna Renny Octa...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Project massive: self-regulation and problematic use of online gaming
A longitudinal design was employed to collect three waves of survey data over a 14 month period from 2790 online gamers. Respondents were asked questions about their gaming activi...
A. Fleming Seay, Robert E. Kraut
CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Rosebud: Technological Toys for Storytelling
Rosebud is a user-interface prototype which elicits storytelling by child users though interaction with a computationally-augmented physical artifact. In particular, Rosebud links...
Jennifer W. Glos, Justine Cassell
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Heart rate control of exercise video games
Exercise video games combine entertainment and physical movement in an effort to encourage people to be more physically active. Multiplayer exercise games take advantage of the mo...
Tadeusz Stach, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Jeffrey Yim,...