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Tech Report kmi-03-13 Abstract
Presence Based Play Towards a Design for Large Group Social Interaction
Techreport ID: kmi-03-13
Date: 2003
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou and Marc Eisenstadt
This poster addresses the fundamental research questions that guide our first steps in the design of innovative playful activities for large numbers of people, based primarily on their mere presence. Our research framework draws upon the areas of multiplayer games, instant messaging, social psychology and group behaviour. We introduce the concept of 'presence based play' to describe the way social interaction based on the simultaneous presence of many people can be enhanced as a meaningful and engaging experience in the networked world. Our design approach to 'presence based' multiplayer games is illustrated with a prototype which we developed to use as a testbed for a series of experiments.
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Appeared in: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Appliance Design (1AD), 6-8 May 2003, Bristol, UK.
Future Internet
KnowledgeManagementMultimedia &
Information SystemsNarrative
HypermediaNew Media SystemsSemantic Web &
Knowledge ServicesSocial Software
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Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.
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