Physiological compliance for social gaming analysis: Cooperative versus competitive play

Physiological compliance for social gaming analysis: Cooperative versus competitive play

We report the results of an empirical study demonstrating the value of using physiological compliance as a measure of social presence during digital game playing. The physiological activity (facial EMG, electrodermal activity, cardiac activity and respiration) of 21 dyads were acquired synchronously while they were playing a digital game either cooperatively or competitively and either at home ...

Big Huggin': Affection gaming for alternative play

Big Huggin‘ is an alternative interface game designed to critique the way we play. It is offered as part of the ongoing Critical Gameplay project. Instead of firing toy guns or gesturing abstractly, players must hug a large stuffed animal to win the game. The game has been played by more than 2000 people at 8 venues in North America, South America and Europe.

Social Behavior and User Engagement in Competitive Online Gaming: An Empirical Analysis

Video games have increasingly taken on a social dimension, with social interaction becoming an important motivating factor for users. Since social gaming helps users derive higher utility from the gaming experience, it may be expected to improve user engagement, retention, and purchase behavior. At the same time, social users may be more vulnerable to churn when one or more individuals from the...

Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Play

Situated Play and Mobile Gaming

There is no other play than situated play. A game becomes situated via play activities. Without playing we have the mechanics of a game, the elements and the relations, the roles and the rules. Situated play emerges within playing when the skeleton becomes alive, the role becomes a person, and the abstract game system becomes a concrete unrepeatable gaming experience. For mobile games having pe...