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ACMACE
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
AVI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Gameplay on a multitouch screen to foster learning about historical sites
The use of gameplay has been shown to be an excellent educational tool, especially if such games are supported by innovative and engaging technologies. This paper presents two new...
Carmelo Ardito, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa La...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
CSCW at play: 'there' as a collaborative virtual environment
Video games are of increasing importance, both as a cultural phenomenon and as an application of collaborative technology. In particular, many recent online games feature persiste...
Barry Brown, Marek Bell
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Propinquity: exploring embodied gameplay
Consumer game platforms are realizing Ubicomp's vision of seamless, sensor-based, embodied interaction with computation. Here we present Propinquity, a full-body dancing/figh...
Amanda Williams, Lynn Hughes, Bart Simon
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Scaling games to epic proportion
We introduce scalability for computer games as the next frontier for techniques from data management. A very important aspect of computer games is the artificial intelligence (AI)...
Walker M. White, Alan J. Demers, Christoph Koch, J...