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HUC
2010
Springer
15 years 27 days ago
MoviPill: improving medication compliance for elders using a mobile persuasive social game
Medication compliance is a critical component in the success of any medical treatment. However, only 50% of patients correctly adhere to their prescription regimens. Mobile and ub...
Rodrigo de Oliveira, Mauro Cherubini, Nuria Oliver
CSEE
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Pex4Fun: Teaching and learning computer science via social gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pexforfun.com/)from Microsoft Research is a web-based serious gaming environment for teaching computer science. Pex4Fun can be used to teach and learn computer...
Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Halleux, Tao Xie
SAGT
2009
Springer
155views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating Better Matchings
We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...
Elliot Anshelevich, Sanmay Das, Yonatan Naamad
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
WAW
2010
Springer
311views Algorithms» more  WAW 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Game-Theoretic Models of Information Overload in Social Networks
We study the effect of information overload on user engagement in an asymmetric social network like Twitter. We introduce simple game-theoretic models that capture rate competition...
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Brian Karrer,...