Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of
pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design
into games

Eliana Penedos-Santiago; Pedro Cardoso; Pedro Sá Couto; Miguel Carvalhais; Fabricio Fava

Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games

Authors

Eliana Penedos-Santiago
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Sá Couto
Miguel Carvalhais
Fabricio Fava

Keywords:

friction, game design, embodied experiences, interaction design

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Published

2026-06-16

Bibtex

@Conference{digra3123, title ="Against seamlessness and hedonistic loops: The cases of pause, reflect, resist, and reform, from Interaction Design into games", year = "2026", author = "Penedos-Santiago, Eliana and Cardoso, Pedro and Sá Couto, Pedro and Carvalhais, Miguel and Fava, Fabricio", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/3123}", booktitle = "Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2026"}

Proceedings

2026: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2026

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Papers

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