Fun and Games

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Rotational Dynamics for Design of Bidirectional Feedback during Manual Interaction

      • Roderick Murray-Smith, Steven Strachan

      Pages 1-10

   2. Hypercomputation, Unconsciousness and Entertainment Technology

      • Matthias Rauterberg

      Pages 11-20

3. Focus on Innovation

   1. Pervasive Mobile Games – A New Mindset for Players and Developers

      • Hannu Korhonen, Hannamari Saarenpää, Janne Paavilainen

      Pages 21-32

   2. EyeMote – Towards Context-Aware Gaming Using Eye Movements Recorded from Wearable Electrooculography

      • Andreas Bulling, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster

      Pages 33-45

   3. The Audio Adventurer: Design of a Portable Audio Adventure Game

      • Philip Mendels, Joep Frens

      Pages 46-58

   4. Building RFID-Based Augmented Dice with Perfect Recognition Rates

      • Steve Hinske, Marc Langheinrich, Yves Alter

      Pages 59-64

   5. Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming

      • Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris, Francesco Mondada

      Pages 65-74

   6. Test-Bed for Multimodal Games on Mobile Devices

      • Marcello Coiana, Alex Conconi, Laurence Nigay, Michael Ortega

      Pages 75-87

4. Affect and Gaming

   1. Dynamic Game Balancing by Recognizing Affect

      • Tim J. W. Tijs, Dirk Brokken, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn

      Pages 88-93

   2. Alone or Together: Exploring the Effect of Physical Co-presence on the Emotional Expressions of Game Playing Children Across Cultures

      • Suleman Shahid, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts

      Pages 94-105

   3. Shared Fun Is Doubled Fun: Player Enjoyment as a Function of Social Setting

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

      Pages 106-117

   4. The Unlikeability of a Cuddly Toy Interface: An Experimental Study of Preschoolers’ Likeability and Usability of a 3D Game Played with a Cuddly Toy Versus a Keyboard

      • Vero Vanden Abeele, Bieke Zaman, Mariek Vanden Abeele

      Pages 118-131

   5. Think Aloud during fMRI: Neuronal Correlates of Subjective Experience in Video Games

      • Martin Klasen, Mikhail Zvyagintsev, René Weber, Krystyna A. Mathiak, Klaus Mathiak

      Pages 132-138

   6. Engagement and EMG in Serious Gaming: Experimenting with Sound and Dynamics in the Levee Patroller Training Game

      • Ellen Lisette Schuurink, Joske Houtkamp, Alexander Toet

      Pages 139-149

   7. Log Who’s Playing: Psychophysiological Game Analysis Made Easy through Event Logging

      • Lennart Nacke, Craig Lindley, Sophie Stellmach

      Pages 150-157

5. Fun n’Games for Young and Old

   1. Acting Your Age in Second Life

      • Darren J. Reed, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

      Pages 158-169

   2. Developing an Adaptive Memory Game for Seniors

      • Elly Zwartkruis-Pelgrim, Boris de Ruyter

      Pages 170-181

   3. A Tangible Tabletop Game Supporting Therapy of Children with Cerebral Palsy

      • Ying Li, Willem Fontijn, Panos Markopoulos

      Pages 182-193

   4. A Music Educational Entertainment Environment for Preschoolers

      • Lisette Jansen, Betsy van Dijk, José Retra

      Pages 194-202

The use of computing technology for entertainment purposes is not a recent p- nomenon. Video game consoles, home computers and other entertainment media have been used widely for more than three decades, and people of all ages are spe- ing an increasing amount of time and money on these technologies. More recent is the rise of a vibrant research community focusing on gaming and entertainment applications. Driven by the growth and the coming of age of the g- ing industry, and by its increasing recognition in the media and the minds of the broader public, the study of computer games, game development and experiences is attracting the interest of researchers from very diverse fields: social sciences, comp- ing, electrical engineering, design, etc. Research of this kind looks to extend the boundaries of gaming technologies. In a relentless drive for innovation, it looks to create and understand an ever increasing range of experiences, and examine how games can provide value for educational, therapeutic and other ‘serious’ purposes. These themes were reflected in the call for participation and eventually the papers accepted for presentation. The Fun n’ Games conference was the second event of a bi-annual series of c- ferences. The first event of the series was held in Preston in 2006 organized by the University of Central Lancashire. Following the success of this event it was decided to run a follow up.

• Design
• Second Life
• Usability
• adventure game
• asynchronous gameplay
• audio game
• cognition
• cognitive decline
• computer games
• consciousness
• context-awareness
• cross-cultural comparison
• digital gaming
• educational entertainment
• robot

• Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Panos Markopoulos, Wijnand IJsselsteijn

• Philips Research, Media Interaction, Prof. Holstlaan 4, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Boris Ruyter

• Mixed Reality Laboratory, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

  Duncan Rowland

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