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Redefining the MDA Framework—The Pursuit of a Game Design Ontology
2021
Information
The main purpose of this paper is to clarify the MDA framework by redefining its main components, mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics, as a way to make the tool more understandable and useful for game designers ...
It clarifies the closest approach to a unified ontology that there is for the game domain: the mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics framework (MDA). ...
The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. ...
doi:10.3390/info12100395
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The Systems and Methods of Game Design
2021
Information
Even a cursory glance at scholarly literature from over a decade ago related to games can show authors variously prefacing their contributions with explanations of the newness of games, the impressive ...
growth of the digital games industry, and the interdisciplinary nature of games [...] ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors of this editorial for the "The Systems and Methods of Game Design" special issue of Information are also the authors of one of the papers described in the special issue ...
doi:10.3390/info12120494
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"Blackout!" Unpacking the Black Box of the Game Event
2015
Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association
In doing so we offer a robust, minimal and practical model for the analyst and designer, that clearly illustrates the network of objects within the 'Black Box' of any game, illuminating how each object ...
In this article we propose a new ontology for games, synthesising phenomenology, Latourian Actor-Network Theory and Goffmanian frame analysis. ...
If we hoped to map out such a relation (bird to Kinect) for design purposes, Schell's (2010) elemental tetrad finds no space for a cheeky fowl; Hunicke et al's MDA (Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics) ( ...
doi:10.26503/todigra.v2i1.42
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The Conceptual Relationship Model: Understanding Patterns and Mechanics in Game Design
2014
Conference of the Digital Games Research Association
Rooted in the complexity of purposeful design, this paper embraces a phenomenological perspective of design as both a process and artifact. ...
This paper revisits the concepts of game design patterns and game mechanics, arguing that refactoring these concepts is needed to clarify their relationships and motivations. ...
The effect of our view on contextualization as locales leads us to a chance to redefine game design patterns and game mechanics, in terms of space and place. ...
dblp:conf/digra/OlssonBD14
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Using prototypes in early pervasive game development
2008
Computers in Entertainment
The main goals of this thesis are to understand in a more profound way how to design games and based on that understanding develop frameworks and methods for aiding game design. ...
At the same time game design has developed into a profession of its own. ...
MDA) framework. ...
doi:10.1145/1371216.1371220
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6G Enabled Industrial Internet of Everything: Towards a Theoretical Framework
2021
Applied System Innovation
For the first time, a novel theoretical framework for the 6G-enabled IIoE (henceforth referred to as 6GIIoE) system was developed. ...
With the dawn of the fifth industrial revolution, IoE is transposing into industrial Internet of Everything (IIoE) projects which are complex and are eventuating to become a prominent technology for all ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/asi4010011
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Thursday sessions
2011
2011 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
The mini-workshop will demonstrate the use of the modules in core engineering courses. Participants will individually design a plan for implementing a module of their choice in one of their courses. ...
A set of course modules has been designed to take a fresh look at the engineering knowledge and skills required for current and emerging energy challenges. ...
Redhawk Duels is a game framework in which students design control algorithms and interfaces for a virtual ship. ...
doi:10.1109/fie.2011.6143155
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Mainstreaming Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Adversarial Paradigm Incommensurability and the Possibility of a Shared Disciplinary Matrix
2013
Social Science Research Network
The thesis asserts that Kuhnian incommensurability is, in fact, a characteristic of the relationship between adversarialism and therapeutic jurisprudence, but that the possibility of a therapeutic paradigm ...
There are increasing calls for the adoption of more therapeutic and problem-solving practices by mainstream judges in civil and criminal courts in a number of jurisdictions, most notably in the United ...
a priori and mandated design. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2347810
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1. Dissertating in Public
[chapter]
2021
Shaping the Digital Dissertation
The expression artistic research connects two domains: art and academia. Obviously the term can also be used in a general sense. ...
something, changes something or begins anew in the course of her work. ...
The MDA has a different attitude toward their archival materials. ...
doi:10.11647/obp.0239.01
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Text Me! New Consumer Practices and Change in Organizational Fields
2012
Social Science Research Network
In this article, we draw on a case of the introduction of text messaging in the United Kingdom to explore the role of consumers in catalyzing change in organizational fields. ...
W hile scholars have provided increasingly well-developed theoretical frameworks for understanding the role of institutional entrepreneurs and other purposeful actors in bringing about change in organizational ...
Ansari is also an assistant professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 6 It is worth noting that SMS acted as a demonstration event for Twitter, which ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2034287
fatcat:vof35zfzvjdbnhkwkut7dp5dqi
Text Me! New Consumer Practices and Change in Organizational Fields
2011
Organization science (Providence, R.I.)
In this article, we draw on a case of the introduction of text messaging in the United Kingdom to explore the role of consumers in catalyzing change in organizational fields. ...
W hile scholars have provided increasingly well-developed theoretical frameworks for understanding the role of institutional entrepreneurs and other purposeful actors in bringing about change in organizational ...
Ansari is also an assistant professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 6 It is worth noting that SMS acted as a demonstration event for Twitter, which ...
doi:10.1287/orsc.1100.0595
fatcat:yyvjtug74vd7lekpcvlp2mn3a4
The design of indie games, a different paradigm
2019
This with the purpose of finding out if the design of indie games represents a different paradigm in regard to game design. ...
This work takes the reader through a series of chapters providing the epistemological context to analyze comparatively the design of indie games and game design. ...
All my gratitude for the supervision, proof-reading and patience throughout my PhD to Dr. Sonia Fizek, Georgina Guillen Hanson, Dr. Anne Dippel and Dr. Fabrizio Poltronieri. ...
doi:10.15495/epub_ubt_00004330
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ACHI 2018 COMMITTEE ACHI Steering Committee
unpublished
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work is partly supported by the Research Council of Norway as a part of the Multimodal Elderly Care Systems (MECS) project, under grant agreement 247697. ...
We would like to thank the participants in the MECS project, Professor Tone Bratteteig, Associated Professor Jo Herstad, and Postdoc Guri Verne for guidance in the design of the study, analysis, and discussion ...
To do so, the framework covers, among other things, the entire player perspective of a CDG [4] , as it was proposed (also) in the well-known MDA-framework for conventional entertainment games [8] . ...
fatcat:kyg6lba7o5gx5boijwdh2hqi6y
African philosophy and educational discourse
2000
Zenodo
The notion of ubuntu (humanism) is identified as pervasive and fundamental to African socio-ethical thought, as illuminating the communal rootedness and interdependence of persons, and highlighting the ...
It sketches communality in traditional African life, and argues that African philosophy should speculate about and provide a conceptual interpretation and analysis of human problems and human experience ...
12 Personal notes presented by the author at a conference of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Ottawa, 1997, and notes from the abovementioned Kampala conference. 14 Consult in this ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5893529
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Proceedings of the 2019 Connected Learning Summit
2020
The Proceedings of the 2019 Connected Learning Summit features research and presentations from the 2019 Connected Learning Summit, held at the University of California, Irvine in October 2019. ...
The proceedings includes full research papers and abstracts for all other presentations. ...
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-96-17-0176-17). ...
doi:10.1184/r1/11926884.v1
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