Exploiting Seams in Mobile Phone Games
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Seamful design is a novel approach to Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing systems that reveals and exploits inevitable technical limitations and boundaries as well as their effects on seamless interaction rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas, point out common seams on the mobile phone platform and show how people might accommodate to seams and use them for their own advantage as useful features of an application. We apply the approach to seamful design to our own location-based mobile game called Tycoon and incorporate different seams into its gameplay for better interaction and usability through the exploitation and appropriation of
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