Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little
empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this paper, we use …

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) often focuses on how designers can develop systems
that convey a single, specific, clear interpretation of what they are for and how they should …

Mobile experiences that take place in public settings such as on city streets create new
opportunities for interweaving the fictional world of a performance or game with the everyday …

The NameVoyager, a Web-based visualization of historical trends in baby naming, has
proven remarkably popular. We describe design decisions behind the application and …

Spectating at sport events is a common and popular leisure activity worldwide. Recently
spectating has also become a topic of interest to CHI, particularly the design of technology …

Several researchers have recently proposed technology for crowd-and-DJ interactions in
nightclub environments. However, these attempts have not always met with success. In …

In this paper we attempt to formalise some of the basic attributes of performative interaction
against a background of sociological analysis in order to better understand how computer …

One common feature in pervasive games is the way they obfuscate the social boundary of
play by involving non-players in the game in various ways. We discuss how several earlier …

Recent years have seen an increase in the design of outdoor interactive environments. In
this SIG we want to discuss the key points in the design of an outdoor interactive …

We examine mobile face-to-face meeting support systems applied to public places and
analyse how the temporality of meetings influence the interaction between anonymous …