Social media use, potential and challenges in innovation have received little attention in literature, especially from the standpoint of the business-to-business sector. Therefore, this paper focuses on bridging this gap with a survey of social media ...

The economic crisis and its consequences require new solutions for the media industry, especially Internet-oriented solutions. This paper presents models of implementation of the social media by the Romanian media companies as a strategic objective for ...

In this paper we present a prototypical implementation of a novel expansion pack called OMFacebook for OpenSimulator based virtual worlds. The idea is to provide the user with a light-weight platform-independent Web application to communicate with ...

In this paper, we discuss the concept of games that react to their background music. Instead of limiting the player to a fixed set of songs, the background music can be any song chosen from the player's own music collection. Due to the relative ...

Seq1 is a prototype of a music sequencer that is intended for aleatoric soundscape creation as well as live performance. Physically it consists of a front end which is a multitouch table with a computer running custom software and a back end running ...

In traditional video, the user is locked to the angle where the camera was pointing to during the capture of the video. With 360° video recording, there are no longer these boundaries, and 360° video capturing devices are becoming more common and ...

Novel interactive solutions provide new possibilities for designing appealing game experiences for wider demographics. The development of motion-based controllers has facilitated the advance of an exergame genre that involves physical activity as the ...

Seeking to explore the implicit rules surrounding the playing of board games in order to facilitate design and add to the understanding of gamers and gaming, this paper describes the result of an interview study of eleven experienced board gamers. A set ...

Social Games, built and played on social networks such as Facebook, have rapidly become a major force in the world of game development, and the top social games today claim more players than any other online game on any format.

As social games begin to ...

Legacy file formats is an increasing concern for organisations. Therefore it is important for any company to develop sustainable strategies for data curation in order to maintain valuable digital assets. In this paper we report from a case study ...

It has been theorised that avatars allow for an embodied interaction between the player and the character they are controlling onscreen. This has been discussed through the avatar being an extension of the player's actions, with the two 'bodies' of the ...

This paper explores how a vocabulary supporting design-related discussions of gameplay preferences can be developed. Using the preference of experiencing camaraderie as an example, we have analyzed four games: the board games Space Alert and Battlestar ...

What does it mean to appreciate gameplay? When we judge a game's gameplay, what are the elements or characteristics of gameplay that we should focus our attention on? We report on a study that analyzed the use of the term gameplay in hundreds of ...