2007: Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Conference: Situated Play

Papers

• People, Places, and Play: A research framework for digital game experience in a socio-spatial context

  Kort Yvonne A. W. de, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Brian J. Gajadhar

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• The Contextual Game Experience: On the Socio-Cultural Contexts for Meaning in Digital Play

  Frans Mäyrä

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• The unbound network of product and service interaction of the MMOG industry: with a case study of China

  Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist

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• The Impact of Experience: The Influences of User and Online Review Ratings on the Performance of Video Games in the US Market

  Sven Joeckel

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• The Lambent Reactive: Exploring the Audiovisual Kinesthetic Playform

  Noah H. Keating

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• Temporal Frames: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis of Game Temporality

  José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas

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• Peep-boxes to Pixels: An Alternative History of Video Game Space

  Philip Sharp

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• Designing a Game to Model Consumer Misbehavior

  Penny Drennan, Dominique A. Keeffe, Rebekah Russell-Bennett, Judy C. Drennan

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• Understanding Pervasive Games through Gameplay Design Patterns

  Staffan Björk, Johan Peitz

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• Mapping Time in Video Games

  Michael Nitsche

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• Ghastly multiplication: Fatal Frame II and the Videogame Uncanny

  Laura Hoeger, William Huber

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• Human, all too non-Human: Coop AI and the Conversation of Action

  Bart Simon

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• Notes Toward a Sense of Embodied Gameplay

  Peter Bayliss

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• Pervasive Persuasive: A Rhetorical Design Approach to a Location-Based Spell-Casting Game for Tourists

  Steffen P. Walz, Rafael "Tico" Ballagas

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• A Method For Discovering Values in Digital Games

  Mary Flanagan, Jonathan Belman, Helen Nissenbaum, Jim Diamond

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• What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Literacy and Learning: Alternative Pathways into Participatory Culture

  Kylier A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai

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• Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters

  Petri Lankoski, Staffan Björk

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• Team Structure in the Development of Game-based Learning Environments

  Antti Kirjavainen, Tuula Nousiainen, Marja Kankaanranta

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• Play: A Procrustean Probe

  Tom Tyler

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• Serious Games in language learning and teaching – a theoretical perspective

  Holm Birgitte Sørensen, Bente Meyer

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• From Gamers to Scholars: Challenges of Teaching Game Studies

  José P. Zagal, Amy S. Bruckman

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• Gender in Play: Mapping a Girls’ Gaming Club

  Nicholas Taylor, Jennifer Jenson, Castell Suzanne de

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• Mobile Gaming with Children in Rural India: Contextual Factors in the Use of Game Design Patterns

  Matthew Kam, Vijay Rudraraju, Anuj Tewari, John Canny

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• Cash Trade Within the Magic Circle: Free-to-Play Game Challenges and Massively Multiplayer Online Game Player Responses

  Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun

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• Effect of Video Games on Children’s Aggressive Behavior and Pro-social Behavior: A Panel Study with Elementary School Students.

  Nobuko Ihori, Akira Sakamoto, Akiko Shibuya, Shintaro Yukawa

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• Leaving a Never-Ending Game: Quitting MMORPGs and Online Gaming Addiction

  Ichia Lee, Chen-Yi Yu, Holin Lin

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• Digital Games for Education: When Meanings Play

  Castell Suzanne de, Jennifer Jenson, Nicholas Taylor

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• The Spontaneous Playfulness of Creativity: Lessons from Interactive Theatre for Digital Games

  Lori M. Shyba

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• Gaming DNA: On Narrative and Gameplay Gestalts

  Douglas Brown

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• Ergonomic evaluation of portable videogame software

  Ryo Kato, Takashi Kawai, Hanae Ikeshita, Kenji Nihei, Tadashi Sato, Hitoshi Yamagata, Hirofumi Tashiro, Takashi Yamazaki

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• Emotions about the Deniable/Undeniable: Sketch for a Classification of Game Content as Experienced

  Olli Leino

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• What’s My Game Character Worth – The Value Components of MMOG Characters

  Tomi Kujanpää, Tony Manninen, Laura Vallius

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• Stealing from Grandma or Generating Cultural Knowledge? Contestations and Effects of Cheats in a Tween Virtual World

  Deborah A. Fields, Yasmin B. Kafai

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• Long-term motivations to play MMOGs: A longitudinal study on motivations, experience and behavior

  Daniel Schultheiss

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• Introducing Applied Ludology: Hands-on Methods for Game Studies

  Aki Järvinen

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• Play it for Real: Sustained Seamless Life/Game Merger in Momentum

  Jaakko Stenros, Markus Montola, Annika Waern, Staffan Jonsson

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• I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and The Implied Player

  Espen Aarseth

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• The Hegemony of Play

  Janine Fron, Tracy Fullerton, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Celia Pearce

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• Piracy in the Caribbean: The Political Stakes of Videogame Piracy in Chávez’s Venezuela

  Thomas H. Apperley

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• Video games in context: An ethnographic study of situated meaning-making practices of Asian immigrant adolescents in New York City

  Chia-Yuan Hung

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• Avatar Categorization

  Daniel Kromand

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• “Blacks Deserve Bodies Too!” Design and Discussion about Diversity and Race in a Tween Online World

  Yasmin B. Kafai, Melissa S. Cook, Deborah A. Fields

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• Survey of the adjourned sale rate of the Japanese home video game industry

  Yuhsuke Koyama

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• The Ethics of Indigenous Storytelling: using the Torque Game Engine to Support Australian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

  Theodor G Wyeld, Brett Leavy, Joti Carroll, Craig Gibbons, Brendan Ledwich, James Hills

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• Playing another Game: Twinking in World of Warcraft

  René Glas

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• Reciprocal Innovation in Modding Communities as a means of Increasing Cultural Diversity and Historical Accuracy in Video Games

  Andrew V. Moshirnia, Anthony C. Walker

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• The Primordial Economics of Cheating: Trading Skill for Glory or Vital Steps to Evolved Play?

  Robert MacBride

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• Exploring E-sports: A Case Study of Gameplay in Counter-strike

  Jana Rambusch, Peter Jakobsson, Daniel Pargman

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• Gambling is in My Genes: Correlations between Personality Traits with Biological Basis and Digital Entertainment Choice

  Byungho Park

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• Monsters and the Mall: Videogames and the Scopic Regimes of Shopping

  Mike Molesworth

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• Controversies: Historicising the Computer Game

  Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Justin Parsler

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• Cultures of Digital Gamers: Practices of Appropriation.

  Markus Wiemker

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• Tangible Pleasures of Pervasive Role-Playing

  Markus Montola

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• Video games in context: An ethnographic study of situated

  Chia-Yuan Hung

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• MMOGs and the Future of Literature

  Julian Kücklich

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• Video games in context: An ethnographic study of situated

  Yuan Hung Chia

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• Balancing Three Different Foci in the Design of Serious Games: Engagement, Training Objective and Context

  Anders Frank

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• Please Biofeed the Zombies: Enhancing the Gameplay and Display of a Horror Game Using Biofeedback

  Andrew Dekker, Erik Champion

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• Exploring the Uncanny Valley with Japanese Video Game Characters

  Edward Schneider, Yifan Wang, Shanshan Yang

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• The Disappearance and Reappearance and Disappearance of the Player in Videogame Advertising

  Bryan-Mitchell Young

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• Self and selfishness in online social play

  David Myers

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• A Typology of Speeches within Board Game Players for Analyzing the Process of Games

  Taichi Kato, Junkichi Sugiura, Makoto Iida, Chuichi Arakawa

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• Video Games and the Training of Sociality: A Survey of Video Game Players

  Yumi Matsuo, Sachi Tajima, Seiko Nohara, Akira Sakamoto

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• Recognizing New Literacies: Teachers and Students Negotiating the Creation of Video Games in School

  Kathy Sanford, Leanna Madill

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• Extending the ‘Serious Game’ Boundary: Virtual Instructors in Mobile Mixed Reality Learning Games

  Jayfus Doswell, Kathleen Harmeyer

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• A Certain Level of Abstraction

  Jesper Juul

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• The Quest in a Generated World

  Calvin Ashmore, Michael Nitsche

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• Situating Gaming as a Sonic Experience: The acoustic ecology of First-Person Shooters

  Mark Grimshaw, Gareth Schott

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• Narrating machines and interactive matrices: a semiotic common ground for game studies

  Gabriele Ferri

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• Situations of Play: Patterns of Spatial Use in Videogames

  Leigh Georgia McGregor

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• Situated Play and Mobile Gaming

  Barbara Grüter, Miriam Oks

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• Because Players Pay: The Business Model Influence on MMOG Design

  Reis Tiago Alves, Licinio Roque

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• Game Design on Item-selling Based Payment Model in Korean Online Games

  Gyuhwan Oh, Taiyoung Ryu

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• Teacher roles in learning games – When games become situated in schools

  Rikke Magnussen

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• Revising Immersion: A Conceptual Model for the Analysis of Digital Game Involvement

  Gordon Calleja

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• This is not a Door: an Ecological approach to Computer Games

  Jonas Linderoth, Ulrika Bennerstedt

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• Perceptions of Player in Game Design Literature

  Olli Sotamaa

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• Creating Multiplayer Ubiquitous Games using an adaptive narration model based on a user’s model

  Stéphane Natkin, Chen Yan, Sylvie Jumpertz, Bernard Marquet

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• Developing a pattern language for flow experiences in video games

  Philippe Lemay

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• Eight Ways Videogames Generate Emotion

  Jonathan Frome

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• Levels of Sound: On the Principles of Interactivity in Music Video Games

  Martin Pichlmair, Fares Kayali

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• Experiential Modes of Game Play

  Robert Appelman

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• Exporting Wars: Literature Theory and How It Explains the Video Game Industry

  Mikolaj Dymek

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• The State of the Art: Western Modes of Videogame Production

  Alex Wade

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• Virtual Worlds and Fraud: Approaching Cybersecurity in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

  Jeffrey Bardzell, Markus Jakobsson, Shaowen Bardzell, Tyler Pace, Will Odom, Aaron Houssian

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• Real-Time Sweetspot: The Multiple Meanings of Game Company Playtests

  Simon Niedenthal

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• “I am not a fan, I just play a lot” – If Power Gamers Aren’t Fans, Who Are?

  Hanna Wirman

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• The place of mobile gaming: one history in locating mobility in the Asia-Pacific region

  Larissa Hjorth

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• Designing Games to Effect Social Change

  Chris Swain

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• The Cultural Economy of Ludic Superflatness

  Dean Chan

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• Critical Potential on the Brink of the Magic Circle

  Cindy Poremba

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• Girls and Gaming: Gender Research, “Progress” and the Death of Interpretation

  Jennifer Jenson, Castell Suzanne de

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• From Catch the Flag to Shock and Awe: how World of Warcraft Negotiates Battle

  Esther MacCallum-Stewart

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• Videogame Music: chiptunes byte back?

  Grethe Mitchell, Andrew Clarke

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• Player-Character Dynamics in Multi-Player Role Playing Games

  Anders Tychsen, Doris McIlwain, Thea Brolund, Michael Hitchens

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• Playing with the Rules: Social and Cultural Aspects of Game Rules in a Console Game Club

  Mikael Jakobsson

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• Approaching game-studies: towards a reflexive methodology of games as situated cultures

  Sybille Lammes

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• “Gamic Realism”: Player, Perception and Action in Video Game Play

  Hanna Sommerseth

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• Counting barrels in Quake 4: affordances and homodiegetic structures in FPS worlds

  Dan Pinchbeck

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• MMOs as Practices

  Ren Reynolds

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• Dimensions of Play: Gameplay, context, franchise and genre in player responses to Command and Conquer: Generals

  Geoff King

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• Visiting the Floating World: Tracing a Cultural History of Games Through Japan and America

  Mia Consalvo

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• Profiling Academic Research on Digital Games Using Text Mining Tools

  Johanna Bragge, Jan Storgårds

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• Situated Play – Just a Temporary Blip?

  Tarja Susi, Jana Rambusch

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• Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations — Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

  Magnus Boman, J. Stefan Johansson

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• From Rule-Breaking to ROM-Hacking: Theorizing the Computer Game-as-Commodity

  Will Jordan

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• Play with me: Exploring the autobiographical through digital games

  Cindy Poremba

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• Pricing models and Motivations for MMO play

  Miho Nojima

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• Interaction Manifestations at the Roots of Experiencing Multiplayer Computer Games

  Laura Vallius, Tony Manninen, Tomi Kujanpää

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• Cross-format analysis of the gaming experience in multi-player role-playing games

  Anders Tychsen, Ken Newman, Thea Brolund, Michael Hitchens

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• Your Second Selves: Resources, Agency, and Constraints in Avatar Designs and Identity Play in a Tween Virtual World

  Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Melissa S. Cook

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• Waiting for Something to Happen: Narratives, Interactivity and Agency and the Video Game Cut-scene

  Paul Cheng

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• Around Sigeru Miyamoto: Enactment of “Creator” on Computer Games

  Akito Inoue, Seido Ushijima

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