The degree to which traditional play equipment, Parkour play elements, and Aldo van Eyck’s play sculptures have an open function

Stimulating physical and social play through open-ended play

In this paper, we describe our design research on tangible play objects that stimulate social and physical play. We illustrate our work by describing a design case about an open-ended play object for children called the ColorFlare. The ColorFlare is an object that detects the player’s movements and provides light feedback and that can communicate with other ColorFlares. A user test is described...

Play the Language: Play Coreference

We propose the PlayCoref game, whose purpose is to obtain substantial amount of text data with the coreference annotation. We provide a description of the game design that covers the strategy, the instructions for the players, the input texts selection and preparation, and the score evaluation.

Digitally Augmenting Traditional Play Environments

Digitally augmented toys and games are traditional toys or game pieces equipped with sensing technology, computing power and communication capabilities. This allows designers to incorporate novel virtual elements previously only available in video games without compromising the tangible and social benefits of traditional play objects. Through this digital augmentation, play environments have th...

To play or not to play.

GlowSteps - A Decentralized Interactive Play Environment for Open-Ended Play

In this paper we present the interactive play environment GlowSteps. GlowSteps consists of ten flexible tiles that respond with light feedback on player’s actions. The play environment is developed to support both social and physical play and is designed with the intention to encourage children to create their own play and games. The tiles can be programmed with different interaction behaviors ...