Posts Tagged ‘meaning’

Are Games Media or Design Objects?

In Articles on 15 January 2010 tagged criticism, Dave Malouf, design, discussions, Edge, Frank Lantz, games, Matt Jones, meaning, media, play, rules, twitter with 4 comments

In a recent post on the Edge blog – which, if you consider yourself a games designer, you absolutely must read – Matt Jones asks:

“Why should pocket calculators be put on a pedestal, and not Peggle?”

He writes about the need for games to be appreciated and critiqued as design objects. He points out [...]

Play in Social and Tangible Interactions

In Talks on 8 May 2009 tagged adaptation, embodied, game design, improvisation, interaction design, meaning, play, social, tangible with 2 comments

Now that the IxDA has posted a video of my presentation at Interaction 09 to Vimeo, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a little background to the talk. I had already posted the slides to SlideShare, so a full write-up doesn’t seem necessary. To provide a little context though, I will [...]

Embodied Interaction and Improvised Information Displays

In Articles on 30 July 2008 tagged adaptation, embodied interaction, hacking, hospitals, improvisation, information displays, interaction design, IxD, meaning, social, tangible with 3 comments

Recently a good friend of mine became a dad. It made me feel really old, but it also lead to an encounter with an improvised information display, which I’d like to tell you about, because it illustrates some of the things I have learnt from reading Paul Dourish’s Where the Action Is.

My friend’s son was [...]