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Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities

Authors : Xavier Fonseca, Stephan Lukosch, Frances Brazier

Published in: Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper describes different types of activities/challenges designed for social interaction, while discussing the performance of such challenges using the mobile digital game “Secrets of the South” (http://secretsofthesouth.tbm.tudelft.nl/, Secrets of the South). The game was played as part of a scientific meeting, with participants from 25 to 62 years of age and a varying degree of cultural differences. The presentation and discussion of the results of the gameplay provide insights on the appropriateness of the different challenges for social interaction in a playful city. Directions for future work for such challenge designs are presented.

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http://secretsofthesouth.tbm.tudelft.nl/, Secrets of the South.

https://www.aplayfulcity.com/the-lab, “A playful Street” project.

https://whatsthehubbub.nl/projects/koppelkiek/, Koppelkiek, ‘couple snapshot’ in Dutch.

http://panstudio.co.uk/, “Hello Lamp Post” project.

http://shadowing.cc/, “Shadowing” project.

http://urbanimals.eu/, “Urbananimals” project.

http://urban-invention.com/, “ActiWait” project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_0vRnkeOk, “The Dancing Traffic Light by smart”.

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/current/tmp-consortium/technology-management-policy-consortium/, Technology, Management and Policy graduate consortium.

https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/onderzoek/projecten/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/, Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future.

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Title: Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities
Authors: Xavier Fonseca
Stephan Lukosch
Frances Brazier
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-06133-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-06134-0

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0_33

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