Play in Middle Childhood: Everyday Play Behaviour and Associated Emotions

Play on: Retrospective Reports of the Persistence of Pretend Play Into Middle Childhood

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Designing Social Behaviour through Play

“All play means something” Johann Huizinga (Huzinga,J, 1949, page 7) In this paper I discuss the strategic and discursive implementation of interactive play in motivating positive social behavior within children and young adults. Central to my discussion is the social role of play and the roles of the players, as described by play theorists Johannes Huzinga (Salen, K et al, 2004, page 465) and ...

[Childhood accidents in play and sports].

AZ66: How Can We Play with Emotions?

Since the early 90’s, affective computing researches have mainly been focused on emotions recognition and less on original entertainment contents that could be proposed. We present a prototype resulting from the association of a physiological sensing device with an original game.

Using Negative Emotions to Impair Game Play

Emotions make significant contributions to rational thought and behavior at multiple levels. Most research with computational models of emotion focuses on reactive behaviors caused by base or learned emotions; yet emotions can play a role in purposeful behaviors as well, leading to emotion-related actions rather than reactions. Higher-level cognitive processes can reflect on the emotional state...