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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving social game engagement on facebook through enhanced socio-contextual information
In this paper we describe the results of a controlled study of a social game, Magpies, which was built on the Facebook Online Social Network (OSN) and enhanced with contextual soc...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco...
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Stronger CDA strategies through empirical game-theoretic analysis and reinforcement learning
We present a general methodology to automate the search for equilibrium strategies in games derived from computational experimentation. Our approach interleaves empirical game-the...
L. Julian Schvartzman, Michael P. Wellman
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Hunting for fun: solitude and attentiveness in collaboration
The design of online collaborative computer games and pervasive games can learn from the everyday practice of deer hunting. We present an ethnographic study revealing how hunters ...
Oskar Juhlin, Alexandra Weilenmann
ACMACE
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Addressing social dilemmas and fostering cooperation through computer games
The concept of social dilemmas can be used to understand social situations all around us. I am looking at identity formation to help understand why people make the decisions they ...
Mark Chen