| 'Ere be dragons: heartfelt gaming. (2006) | |||||||||
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| This article (Boyd Davis principal author, project director) discusses issues arising from the development of a unique location-aware game using live bio-sensing, funded by Wellcome Trust and Radiator Festival UK, First Play Berlin, supported by Hewlett Packard Research Labs. Project research methods: 1. Work in a cross-disciplinary team of artists, interaction experts and health scientists, using art to explore bioscience in the context of public health. Science collaborator: Prof. C. Riddoch, Senior Scientific Editor Chief Medical Officer's report 'Physical Activity and Health' 2004. 2. Combine novel technologies with novel gameplay, in contrast to most digital games which are reactionary and unimaginative in their models of play. The player activity emphasised is exploration, both of the external world and of the player's own body. 3. Evaluate formally and informally with users. 4. Explore through practice the new possibilities of media which are pervasive, multimodal and physical (Boyd Davis leads a workshop on audio in this context for BBC FreeThinking, Liverpool, 10/11/2007). A world first, Dragons has received international attention: presentations in Singapore, Ireland, Germany, Finland and Japan; competitive exhibition (ACM Multimedia Art, Singapore, 7-11 November 2005); papers for peer-reviewed international conferences; two book chapters – short chapter for Space Time Play: Games, Architecture and Urbanism (Birkhäuser 2007 ISBN 9783764384142); full chapter for Springer book on Pervasive Games (eds. Magerkurth and Röcker 2008). Nokia Ubimedia award 2007. Related work: 1) Boyd Davis and Carini 'Constructing a Player-Centred Definition of Fun for Video Games Design' In: People and Computers XVIII. Springer, London ISBN 1-85233-900-4. 117-132 2) Boyd Davis, Davies, Haddad, and Lai. 'Smell Me: Engaging with an Interactive Olfactory Game.' In: People and Computers XX. Springer. ISBN 1-84628-588-7. 25-40. 3) invited article 'Playing at HCI' Interfaces magazine No.70 (Spring 2007) BCS British HCI Group. ISSN 1351-119X. 16-17. | |||||||||
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