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Taking the Biscuit: Playful Interaction

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BCS-HCI '14: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI

Pages 371 - 375

https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.36

Published: 09 September 2014 Publication History

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Food is an important commodity, is essential for our survival and people usually interact with food on a daily basis. In this paper, we motivate design for serendipitous playful interaction with biscuits by describing the designs of two interactive games based on food and fun. The affordances of the food, and the affordances of the specific food, that being biscuits, on the design is discussed. As an Alt-HCI paper the work then goes on to consider the role that biscuits might have in the HCI space of the future.

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Robinson SJ. Bidwell NMaye LPantidi NLinehan C(2020)Participation through substituting and refusingProceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 210.1145/3384772.3385148(143-147)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3384772.3385148
Chisik YPons PJaen JMueller FJohnson DSchouten BToups ZWyeth P(2018)Gastronomy Meets LudologyProceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts10.1145/3270316.3272056(155-168)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3270316.3272056

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Taking the Biscuit: Playful Interaction
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction paradigms

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BCS-HCI '14: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference on HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI

September 2014

380 pages

Conference Chairs:
Daniel Fitton
University of Central Lancashire
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Matt Horton
University of Central Lancashire
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Janet Read
University of Central Lancashire
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Gavin Sim
University of Central Lancashire

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Robinson SJ. Bidwell NMaye LPantidi NLinehan C(2020)Participation through substituting and refusingProceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 210.1145/3384772.3385148(143-147)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2020
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Chisik YPons PJaen JMueller FJohnson DSchouten BToups ZWyeth P(2018)Gastronomy Meets LudologyProceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts10.1145/3270316.3272056(155-168)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3270316.3272056

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