Emerging technologies offer exciting new ways of using entertainment technology to create
fantastic play experiences and foster interactions between players. Evaluating entertainment …

1. Introduction Interest in developing the field of game research, ludology, has grown
steadily over the last few years. But because games vary greatly, not only in their content …

This paper presents a design case study of SIDES: Shared Interfaces to Develop Effective
Social Skills. SIDES is a tool designed to help adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome …

Collaborative interactions with many existing digital tabletop systems lack the fluidity of
collaborating around a table using traditional media. This paper presents a critical analysis …

This article gives an introduction and overview of the field of pervasive gaming, an emerging
genre in which traditional, real-world games are augmented with computing functionality, or …

Emerging technologies offer new ways of using entertainment technology to foster
interactions between players and connect people. Evaluating collaborative entertainment …

In this paper we present a novel hardware and software platform (STARS) to realize
computer augmented tabletop games that unify the strengths of traditional board games and …

Background It is overwhelmingly acknowledged by the scientific community that evolution
and global climate change (GCC) are undeniably supported by physical evidence. And yet …

We report how new types of games can be created using the possibilities of embedded
computing, sensors, new output devices and ad-hoc wireless networks while keeping …

In this paper, a system called Caretta that integrates personal and shared spaces to support
face-to-face collaboration is described. We use PDAs and a multiple-input sensing board for …