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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Participatory design and opposing interests in development of educational computer games
In this study we have followed a participatory design process in a class of children aged 11 and 12. The development team, a group of Danish schoolteachers, invited the children t...
Rikke Magnussen, Morten Misfeldt, Tasha Buch
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A new approach on wearable game design and its evaluation
As technologies evolve and computer systems shrink to the size of matchboxes, also their field of application shifts in new directions. Our permanent companions, mobile phones, p...
Christian Bertelsmeyer, Erik Koch, Alexander H. Sc...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Characters in Computer Games: Toward Understanding Interpretation and Design
Interpretation of characters is a fundamental feature of human behavior. Even with limited information available, people will assign personality – even to inanimate objects. Cha...
Petri Lankoski, Satu Heliö, Inger Ekman
ACMACE
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
The "Alberto's Gravimente Toys": children's fiction on technological design
This paper presents the design process of a learning game puzzle based on environmental sustainability themes for children (primary school). To control the game, children use Albe...
Marta Ferraz, Teresa Romão, António ...