A Design Approach to Decentralized Interactive Environments

Essen, HA Harm van; Rijnbout, Pepijn; Graaf, MJ Mark de

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_6

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“…People are opportunistic as they interact with the world. We assume that by providing local interaction opportunities as a support for situated actions global play patterns will develop [14]. Resnick [35] provides various examples from nature where local behavior leads to global patterns.…”

Section: Five Pass Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Designing playful interactions for social interaction and physical play

Bekker

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Eggen

2009

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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This paper describes three design values that we apply for designing playful interactions. Interactive play objects can stimulate social interaction and physical play by providing motivating feedback to players' behavior; they can allow players to create their own game goals and rules in an open-ended play context and support social player interaction patterns. This design approach is illustrated by six design cases in which our assumptions were examined in various play contexts. The results show that the application of these design values can lead to rich and appealing innovative play concepts. Players can create a wide range of (physical) games using open-ended play objects, and properties of the play objects, such as being personal or shared, influence the type of social interaction.

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Section: Five Pass Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

Designing playful interactions for social interaction and physical play

Bekker

Sturm

Eggen

2009

Pers Ubiquit Comput

133

101

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“…The collection of objects together with the users forms a decentralized system. A decentralized system exists of a number of separated autonomic devices that can somehow interact with each other or with the shared environment [11]. The elements have local interaction rules.…”

Section: Introduction Of Intelligent Play Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The elements have local interaction rules. Decentralized systems are known for their robust and self-organizing capabilities [11]. Those capabilities make them useful for designing play environments as they can be used in implementing adaptive mechanisms.…”

Section: Introduction Of Intelligent Play Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Richness of Open-ended Play - Rules, feedback and adaptation mechanisms in intelligent play environments

Rijnbout¹,

Graaf²,

Schouten³

2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

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How can we design intelligent play environments for open-ended play that support richness in play? Rich play can be described as ongoing play that changes over time in character, form and nature. This paper elaborates on our initial insights on how rules and goals develop from interaction opportunities of the system, based on two pilot studies with an interactive play environment for open-ended play. Furthermore we will discuss the roles of feedback and adaptation mechanisms in the environment. Those system properties will change the interaction opportunities to match with the current situation in the play environment and to support richness in play.

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