Fun and (striving) games: playfulness and agential fluidity

What About Fun and Games?

FUN and GAMES WITH DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

ˆ Section 2.2 discusses the Least-Number Principle (also referred to as the Well Ordering Principle). In this section you'll find a nice template for writing proofs using this principle. Proofs for the formula for the sum of nonnegative integers and prime factorization are in the following sections. ˆ The introduction of sections 6.1.2 and 6.2 discuss induction and strong induction, respectivel...

Chapter 4 Serious Games and Seriously Fun Games Can

As already elaborated in the previous chapters of this volume, serious games have been acclaimed for playing an increasingly important role in learning, psychological development, and social change (see Ratan & Ritterfeld, this volume, chapter 2; Ritterfeld, Cody, & Vorderer, this volume, chapter 1). Serious games represent the effort to facilitate education through digital entertainment media,...

Context-aware fun and games with Bluetooth

Bluetooth-enabled devices are everywhere and in everyday use by a large number of mobile phone users. Harnessing this communication channel for a context-aware system has proved to be a useful step forward in providing simple games, fun events and targeted advertising based on the awareness of the user’s location. As part of a wider project the authors have produced a system that allows users t...

Fun and Games with Sums of Squares

This blog post is an introduction to the “Sum of Squares” (SOS) algorithm from my biased perspective. This post is rather long I apologize. If you’d rather ”see the movie”, I’ll be giving a TCS+ seminar about this topic on Wednesday, February 26th 1pm EST. If you prefer the live version, I’ll be giving a summer course in Stockholm from June 30 till July 4th. I’ve been told that there are worse ...