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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Designing games to motivate physical activity
Engagement with computer games causes children and adolescent users to spend a substantial amount of time at sedentary game playing activity. We hypothesise that this engagement c...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dipak Bhandari, Stephen Kimani, ...
ACMACE
2007
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Insectopia: exploring pervasive games through technology already pervasively available
We present the pervasive game Insectopia, which have been designed by the approach of utilizing commercially available mobile phones to provide context-dependent gameplay. The des...
Johan Peitz, Hannamari Saarenpää, Staffa...
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Mobile Camera Gaming: Using Camera Enabled Mobile Phones for Photo Playing
: As the mobile phone's camera is becoming the most widely available consumer tool for media creation it also opens new possibilities for casual and social form of mobile gami...
Kai Kuikkaniemi, Lassi Seppälä
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The attack of the backstories (and why they won't win)
This essay adopts a formal model of play as semiosis [18] to explore the often dysfunctional role of backstories within computer game design and play. Within this model, backstori...
David Myers
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Design influence on social play in distributed exertion games
Exertion games are an emerging form of interactive games that require players to invest significant physical effort as part of the gameplay, rather than just pressing buttons. The...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs, Frank Vetere