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PUC
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Towards understanding how to design for social play in exertion games
Players invest significant physical effort when playing exertion games. In addition to improving physical health, exertion games are also believed to facilitate social play amongs...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs, Frank Vetere
ACMACE
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
BragFish: exploring physical and social interaction in co-located handheld augmented reality games
In this paper, we present our research on social interaction in colocated handheld augmented reality (AR) games. These games are characterized by shared physical spaces that promo...
Yan Xu, Maribeth Gandy, Sami Deen, Brian Schrank, ...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
/hide: The aesthetics of group and solo play
In this essay, I examine differences between individual and social play and, in particular, the differences between individual and social play within digital media forms designed ...
David Myers
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Video playdate: toward free play across distance
We present an empirical investigation of video-mediated free play between 13 pairs of friends (ages 7 and 8). The pairs spent 10 minutes playing with each of four different protot...
Svetlana Yarosh, Kori M. Inkpen, A. J. Bernheim Br...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 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