Sökning: "Man-Machine Systems"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Man-Machine Systems.
16. Tools for Designing Mobile Interaction with the Physical Environment in Outdoor Lessons
Sammanfattning : Mobile technologies are increasingly being used to support students in outdoor learning activities. For instance, in a growing number of research projects, smartphones and positioning technologies are being used to support students in exploring the natural environment. LÄS MER
17. Hanging out in the game café : Contextualising co-located computer game play practices and experiences
Sammanfattning : What social practices are people involved when staying in a game café? What kind of social setting is the game café? What are the attitudes towards playing computer games at home and in public among parents? What are the media representations of co-located game playing in public? What are the sensory experiences of playing co-located game play in public? This dissertation gives a descriptive and analytical account of the contexts and meanings of playing co-located computer games in public settings such as game cafés and LAN parties. The overall aim with the dissertation is to describe and investigate the social and cultural meanings and contexts of playing computer games in a game café. LÄS MER
18. Body Games : Designing for movement-based play in co-located social settings
Sammanfattning : The challenge of designing for games and playful activities has moved past the technical, to focus on how to design for a design space where the threads of the digital technologies and the physical world interweave and entangle creating a hybrid fabric where play can take place. But how can we bridge between the digital and physical world where play is enacted and unravel the tangle of this hybrid fabric? How can we braid the digital and digital threads to spur playful experiences? In this thesis, I focus on a concrete fabric of hybrid play: co–located physical and social play, and propose a framework for design in this scenario: the PLAY BOOST framework. LÄS MER
19. Extending Game User Experience - Exploring Player Feedback and Satisfaction : The Birth of the Playsona
Sammanfattning : Video games are experience-based products and user satisfaction is key for their popularity. To design for as strong an experience as possible, game developers incorporate evaluation methods that help to discover their users’ expectations and needs. Despite such efforts, problems still occur with the game design that lower the user experience. LÄS MER
20. Mobility is the Message : Experiments with Mobile Media Sharing
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores new mobile media sharing applications by building, deploying, and studying their use. While we share media in many different ways both on the web and on mobile phones, there are few ways of sharing media with people physically near us. LÄS MER
