ec(h)o: Ecologies For Designing Playful Interaction

Pathways toward Playful Learning: Games as Learning Ecologies

Playful Interactions Stimulating Physical Activity in Public Spaces

In this position paper we describe our vision on designing playful interactions to persuade people to be physically active in public spaces. Social embeddedness and playful interaction are the core elements of this vision. We illustrate how our design vision is incorporated into innovative concepts that stimulate physical activity for various user groups and in various use contexts, and present...

O-TONE: Interactive Sound Experience for Audiences in Sound Installations

Designing interactive instruments for audiences in sound installations can be quite challenging. The instruments have to be simple and should offer highest creative freedom. This article introduces an interactive sound instrument that follows playful strategies of interaction with sound environments and generating new sound experience for everybody.

Designing for playful photography

s on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN, April 20 25, 2002, New York, NY: ACM, pp. 574 575, 2002. H. Martin and B. Gaver, ‘‘Beyond the snapshot from speculation to prototypes in audiophotography’’, in Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques (DIS’00), New York City, NY, August 17 19, 2000, D. Boyarski and ...

Performance of sage (Salvia officinalis L.) for morpho-agronomic and chemical traits in different agro-ecologies of Ethiopia

This experiment was conducted with the objective of evaluating the performance sage (Salvia officinalis L.) in different agroecology of Ethiopia for morpho-agronomic and chemical traits at Wondo genet, Hawassa, Qoqa and Holleta for two years from 2011/2012 to 2012/2013 cropping seasons. Data on plant height, branch number/plant, fresh leaf weight/plant, fresh stem weight/plant, above ground bio...