The Cooperative Work of Gaming: Orchestrating a Mobile SMS Game

Crabtree, Andy; Benford, Steve; Capra, Mauricio; Flintham, Martin; Drozd, Adam; Tandavanitj, Nick; Adams, Matt; Farr, Ju Row

doi:10.1007/s10606-007-9048-1

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Within this tradition, there are a number of studies that unpack the ways in which games are socially organized by the players, and it is argued that such an approach may advance our "understanding of playful activities and design for them" (Crabtree et al 2007, p. 168). Previous studies of games have scrutinized the skills of orchestrating a ubiquitous and performance game (Crabtree et al 2007) and documented expert play in online games (Reeves et al 2009). Our aim is to study the work of players involved in team-related activities, with an eye towards the interactional details of this work.…”

Section: Analyzing the Art Of Cooperative Gameplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowing the Way. Managing Epistemic Topologies in Virtual Game Worlds

Bennerstedt

Ivarsson

2010

Comput Supported Coop Work

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This is a study of interaction in massively multiplayer online games. The general interest concerns how action is coordinated in practices that neither rely on the use of talk-ininteraction nor on a socially present living body. For the participants studied, the use of text typed chat and the largely underexplored domain of virtual actions remain as materials on which to build consecutive action. How, then, members of these games can and do collaborate, in spite of such apparent interactional deprivation, are the topics of the study. More specifically, it addresses the situated practices that participants rely on in order to monitor other players' conduct, and through which online actions become recognizable as specific actions with implications for the further achievement of the collaborative events. The analysis shows that these practices share the common phenomenon of projections. As an interactional phenomenon, projection of the next action has been extensively studied. In relation to previous research, this study shows that the projection of a next action can be construed with resources that do not build on turns-at-talk or on actions immediately stemming from the physical body-in the domain of online games, players project activity shifts by means of completely different resources. This observation further suggests that projection should be possible through the reconfiguration of any material, on condition that those reconfigurations and materials are recurrent aspects of some established practice.

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Section: Analyzing the Art Of Cooperative Gameplaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowing the Way. Managing Epistemic Topologies in Virtual Game Worlds

Bennerstedt

Ivarsson

2010

Comput Supported Coop Work

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“…The control room staff have the dual role of being both the designers of the specific interactive setting as well as key performers in the actual execution of the show. Similar to reported experiences of building pervasive game experiences (Crabtree et al, 2007), this orchestration work means that behind the scenes staff become co-producers of the activity and that the end-user interaction is inseparably intertwined with the development process.…”

Section: Programming For Performance In Large Public Spacesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Setting the stage – Embodied and spatial dimensions in emerging programming practices

Jönsson

Tholander

Fernaeus

2009

Interacting with Computers

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a b s t r a c tIn the design of interactive systems, developers sometimes need to engage in various ways of physical performance in order to communicate ideas and to test out properties of the system to be realised. External resources such as sketches, as well as bodily action, often play important parts in such processes, and several methods and tools that explicitly address such aspects of interaction design have recently been developed. This combined with the growing range of pervasive, ubiquitous, and tangible technologies add up to a complex web of physicality within the practice of designing interactive systems. We illustrate this dimension of systems development through three cases which in different ways address the design of systems where embodied performance is important. The first case shows how building a physical sport simulator emphasises a shift in activity between programming and debugging. The second case shows a build-once run-once scenario, where the fine-tuning and control of the run-time activity gets turned into an act of in situ performance by the programmers. The third example illustrates the explorative and experiential nature of programming and debugging systems for specialised and autonomous interaction devices. This multitude in approaches in existing programming settings reveals an expanded perspective of what practices of interaction design consist of, emphasising the interlinking between design, programming, and performance with the system that is being developed.

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“…Conversely, people's interactions within a game might lead the designers in the way they develop a game world. is claim is made by Crabtree et al [77],…”

Section: -Multi-player Gamesmentioning

confidence: 89%