Designing interactive pedagogies of play through metaliteracy

Designing Social Behaviour through Play

“All play means something” Johann Huizinga (Huzinga,J, 1949, page 7) In this paper I discuss the strategic and discursive implementation of interactive play in motivating positive social behavior within children and young adults. Central to my discussion is the social role of play and the roles of the players, as described by play theorists Johannes Huzinga (Salen, K et al, 2004, page 465) and ...

Interactive Space Generation through Play

In this paper we report on recent developments in ARTHUR: an approach to support complex design and planning decisions for architects together with the simulation of pedestrian movement and the integration of existing CAD tools on the design table. Following a brief introduction, past and current work that has taken a similar approach will be reviewed. Next we describe a scenario that integrate...

Designing Multi-Device Interactive Services through Multiple Abstraction Levels

UI Cellphone (XML) AbstractUI Desktop ( XML) AbstractUI (XML) Voice Voice Task model for envisioned nomadic applications XHTML MP, WML ... XHTML, Java ... VoiceXML, Salt ...

Designing Interactive Museum Exhibits!: Enhancing visitor curiosity through augmented artefacts

In this paper, we describe the current work being conducted at the Interaction Design Centre on the design and development of a novel interactive museum exhibition. The particular context and cultural setting of the museum calls for a careful approach to the introduction of technology in such a context. We present some of the findings from our early field studies, and discuss how we are attempt...

Let’s Go Out and Play: Designing Interactive Outdoor Games for Children