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Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

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Promoting social behavior is one of the key goals in interactive games. In this paper, we present an experimental study in the Interactive Tag Playground (ITP) to investigate whether social behaviors reported in literature can also be observed through automated analysis. We do this by analyzing players’ positions and roles, which the ITP logs automatically. Specifically, we address the effect that gender and age have on the amount of tags and the distance that players keep between them. Our findings largely replicate existing research, although not all hypothesized differences reached a level of statistical significance. With this proof-of-concept study, we have paved the way for the automated analysis of play, which can aid in making interactive playgrounds more engaging.

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This publication was supported by the Dutch national program COMMIT.

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    Alejandro Moreno & Dirk Heylen

  2. Interaction Technology Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ronald Poppe

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Meyer

  3. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Remco Veltkamp

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Moreno, A., Poppe, R., Heylen, D. (2017). Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. In: Poppe, R., Meyer, JJ., Veltkamp, R., Dastani, M. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

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