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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Game design principles in everyday fitness applications
The global obesity epidemic has prompted our community to explore the potential for technology to play a stronger role in promoting healthier lifestyles. Although there are severa...
Taj Campbell, Brian Ngo, James Fogarty
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Interweaving mobile games with everyday life
We introduce a location?based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies--the coverage and s...
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Mal...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Broadening participation through scalable game design
Game development is quickly gaining popularity in introductory programming courses. Motivational and educational aspects of game development are hard to balance and often sacrific...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
FPLAY
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Intelligent adaptation of digital game-based learning
Games for learning cannot take the same design approach as games when targeting audiences. While players of entertainment games have the luxury of choosing games that suit them, s...
Brian Magerko, Carrie Heeter, Joe Fitzgerald, Ben ...
MCI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
In a Strange Land: modelling and understanding cyberspace
: This paper begins with a long-term view of the development of cyberspace. This includes a brief examination of the worldview of a 16th-century mapmaker and over 4000 years of dev...
Alan J. Dix