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Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities

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Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (ArtsIT 2018, DLI 2018)

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This paper describes different types of activities/challenges designed for social interaction, while discussing the performance of such challenges using the mobile digital game “Secrets of the South” (http://secretsofthesouth.tbm.tudelft.nl/, Secrets of the South). The game was played as part of a scientific meeting, with participants from 25 to 62 years of age and a varying degree of cultural differences. The presentation and discussion of the results of the gameplay provide insights on the appropriateness of the different challenges for social interaction in a playful city. Directions for future work for such challenge designs are presented.

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    http://secretsofthesouth.tbm.tudelft.nl/, Secrets of the South.

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    https://www.aplayfulcity.com/the-lab, “A playful Street” project.

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    https://whatsthehubbub.nl/projects/koppelkiek/, Koppelkiek, ‘couple snapshot’ in Dutch.

  4. 4.

    http://panstudio.co.uk/, “Hello Lamp Post” project.

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    http://shadowing.cc/, “Shadowing” project.

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    http://urbanimals.eu/, “Urbananimals” project.

  7. 7.

    http://urban-invention.com/, “ActiWait” project.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_0vRnkeOk, “The Dancing Traffic Light by smart”.

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    https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/current/tmp-consortium/technology-management-policy-consortium/, Technology, Management and Policy graduate consortium.

  10. 10.

    https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/onderzoek/projecten/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/, Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future.

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Acknowledgements are due to Amir Fard, Hendrik Engelbrecht, Isabelle Kniestedt, Kusnandar Kusnandar, Daniel Broca, Chun Cheung, Bramka Jafino, Els van Daalen, and to the research project that supported this researchFootnote 10.

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    Xavier Fonseca, Stephan Lukosch & Frances Brazier

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Fonseca, X., Lukosch, S., Brazier, F. (2019). Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E., Sylla, C. (eds) Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. ArtsIT DLI 2018 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 265. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0_33

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