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Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities

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Lennart E. Nacke,

Pejman Mirza-Babaei,

Katta Spiel,

Phoebe O. Toups Dugas,

Katherine IsbisterAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: SIG11, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3185360

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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The Games-and-Play community has thrived at ACM SIGCHI with a consistent increase in games- and play-related submissions across research papers, workshops, posters, demos, and competitions. The community has attracted a significant number of academic researchers, students, and practitioners to CHI conferences in recent years. CHI 2018 is being held in Montréal, a major game development hub. Montréal is not only a home for major game studios but also more than 100 smaller game studios. In line with the "Engage With CHI" spirit of CHI 2018, this SIG aims to engage the Games and Play community in a discussion about the directions that we can take to advance towards demographics that will benefit from HCI games research but are currently underrepresented: small, independent developers, non-profit organizations, and academics that create mobile games, games for health, games for change, and/or educational games.

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Mandryk RMirza-Babaei PDenisova AFreeman GJohnson D(2024)Games and Play SIG: Connecting Games Research to the Broader HCI ContextExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3643986(1-6)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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Nacke LMirza-Babaei PDrachen A(2024)User Experience Research and Design in Video GamesExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3636271(1-3)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3636271

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Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Human-centered computing

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2018

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ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

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University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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CHI EA '18 Paper Acceptance Rate 1,208 of 3,955 submissions, 31%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,164 of 23,696 submissions, 26%

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Denisova ABromley SMirza-Babaei PMekler E(2024)Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game DevelopersProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36771088:CHI PLAY(1-25)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3677108
Mandryk RMirza-Babaei PDenisova AFreeman GJohnson D(2024)Games and Play SIG: Connecting Games Research to the Broader HCI ContextExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3643986(1-6)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3643986
Nacke LMirza-Babaei PDrachen A(2024)User Experience Research and Design in Video GamesExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3636271(1-3)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3636271

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