Designing Public Play : Playful Engagement, Constructed Activity, and Player Experience

This thesis sets out to explore why people engage in, and how to design for, play in a public setting. It does this by separating design for play from design of games, describing play as a socially and mentally understood activity, and a playful approach to engaging in that activity. It emphasises t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Back, Jon
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Människa-datorinteraktion 2016
Subjects:
fun
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-268060
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-506-2495-3