GAMING COMMUNITY ARENA

Community generated location based gaming

Recent research in this field has led us to the conclusion that there is potential opportunity for emergent Location Based Games that deviate away from players physical movement and encourages them to consider their location and its environment [1, 3]. The aim of this research seeks to generate a wider community that is specific and relevant to game play, with the aim to maintain and achieve lo...

Conflict Management in an Online Gaming Community

Online gaming communities are an important class of virtual communities. They comprise complex and dynamic socio-technical systems, in which conflict is inevitable. Understanding how these communities manage conflict and how conflict management relates to other governance processes such as activity design and change management is essential to ensure their sustainability. This paper concerns a l...

A mathematical model for a gaming community

We consider a large community of individuals who mix strongly and meet in pairs to bet on a coin toss. We investigate the asset distribution of the players involved in this zero-sum repeated game. Our main result is that the asset distribution converges to the exponential distribution, irrespective of the size of the bet, as long as players can never go bankrupt. Analytical results suggests tha...

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz Position paper for The Car as an Arena for Gaming

This project presents an innovative design for vehicular lifelogging that engages drivers in playful interactions with their vehicle. In particular, our design strategy provokes drivers’ imaginations of their car’s “character,” augments the relationship between driver and vehicle, and repositions the context of driving as an opportunity for ambient storytelling. Joshua McVeigh-Schultz Universit...

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