Encouraging Co-located Players Social Interaction

This position paper presents our ongoing work for stimulating co-located social engagement among players with a game that resorts to face recognition and another game where players are accompanied in their daily lives by virtual projected imaginary friends. We suggest interaction between imaginary friends of different players that will work as a bridge for interaction among their respective human companions. In the context of the games and of the initial results obtained a framework for encouraging social interactions in large groups of players is outlined. Author