Playing With the Autoethnographical

Playing with the Weather

In this paper the contribution of real time weather data to player enjoyment was tested and evaluated. To gauge the contribution of weather to player engagement an adaptronic, multiplayer, location based game, where real time weather data is key to the gameplay, was created. In this game the player assumes the role of a wizard and confronts other players in duels where the current weather plays...

Playing the Minesweeper with Constraints

We present the design and implementation of a Minesweeper game, augmented with a digital assistant. The assistant uses contraint programming techniques to help the player, and is able to play the game by itself. It predicts safe moves, and gives probabilistic information when safe moves cannot be found.

Playing with the Real World

In this paper we provide a framework that enables the rapid development of applications using non-standard input devices. Flash is chosen as programming language since it can be used for quickly assembling graphical applications. We overcome the difficulties of Flash to access external devices by introducing a very generic concept: The state information generated by input devices is transferred...

Playing Games with the Law

QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING IN INTERNET STUDIES Playing with the media, playing with the method

This methodological paper addresses practical strategies, implications, benefits and drawbacks of collecting qualitative semi-structured interview data about Internet-based research topics using four different interaction systems: face to face; telephone; email; and instant messaging. The discussion presented here is based on a review of the literature and reflection on the experiences of the a...