Digital Make-Believe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Phil Turner, J. Tuomas Harviainen

   Pages 1-9

3. A Make-Believe Narrative for HCI

   • Phil Turner

   Pages 11-26

4. Make-Believing Virtual Realities

   • Susan Turner, Chih-Wei Huang, Luke Burrows, Phil Turner

   Pages 27-47

5. Fiction for Design: Appropriating Hollywood Techniques for Design Fictions

   • Tom Flint

   Pages 49-66

6. Designing for Service Experiences

   • Satu Luojus, J. Tuomas Harviainen

   Pages 67-88

7. Gameworld Interfaces as Make-Believe

   • Kristine Jørgensen

   Pages 89-99

8. Make-Believe in Gameful and Playful Design

   • Sebastian Deterding

   Pages 101-124

9. The Role of Make-Believe in Foley

   • Lindsey Carruthers, Phil Turner

   Pages 125-139

10. Enactive Mechanism of Make-Belief Games

    • Zuzanna Rucińska

    Pages 141-160

11. Immanent Story Worlds: The Making of Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

    • Carina Westling

    Pages 161-178

Make-believe plays a far stronger role in both the design and use of interfaces, games and services than we have come to believe. This edited volume illustrates ways for grasping and utilising that connection to improve interaction, user experiences, and customer value.

Useful for designers, undergraduates and researchers alike, this new research provide tools for understanding and applying make-believe in various contexts, ranging from digital tools to physical services. It takes the reader through a world of imagination and intuition applied into efficient practice, with topics including the connection of human-computer interaction (HCI) to make-believe and backstories, the presence of imagination in gamification, gameworlds, virtual worlds and service design, and the believability of make-believe based designs in various contexts. Furthermore, it discusses the challenges inherent in applying make-believe as a basis for interaction design, as well as the enactive mechanism behindit.

Whether used as a university textbook or simply used for design inspiration, Digital Make-Believe provides new and efficient insight into approaching interaction in the way in which actual users of devices, software and services can innately utilise it.

• Gamification
• Service Design
• Gameworlds
• Interaction Design
• Interface Design
• Make-Believe

• School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Phil Turner

• Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland

  J. Tuomas Harviainen

Phil Turner is a reader in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and research leader of the Make-Believe group.

J. Tuomas Harviainen is a Development Manager for the city of Vantaa, Finland and a postdoctoral researcher at Hanken School of Economics. He currently focuses especially on the organizational learning aspects of games, but often ventures into service design, management, information systems, or sexology. He is also one of the three editors of the journal Simulation & Gaming.

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