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Designing for Positive and Serious Experience: Devices for Creativity, Engagement, Reflection and Learning

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Serious Games (JCSG 2015)

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Slow serious gameplay and interactions are slow movements intended to focus and sharpen attention/concentration, and provide openings and opportunities for reflection, contemplation, questioning and learning. Like devices used in film and theatre, this forms part of an emerging design repertoire of strategies and devices for creativity to articulate and manipulate time and space and narrative in interactions and games for the shaping of experience. To illustrate the idea of slow serious interactions this paper outlines devices and strategies for the design and development of a serious game that blends slow with fast interaction and gameplay to shape experience between positive and serious experience, to engage, stimulate thought and for reflection. The design strategies outlined herein can be used to inform design of other games, interactions and slow serious (art) games.

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  1. Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Tim Marsh

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  1. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  2. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    Minhua Ma

  3. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  4. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

  5. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Josef Wiemeyer

  6. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Viktor Wendel

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Marsh, T. (2015). Designing for Positive and Serious Experience: Devices for Creativity, Engagement, Reflection and Learning. In: Göbel, S., Ma, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Oliveira, M., Wiemeyer, J., Wendel, V. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9090. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19126-3_1

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