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Play design and sense-making: players and games as digital interactive contexts for effects of sense

VITALI, ANNAMARIA ANDREA
2015-01-01
2015
Design and semantics of form and movement - DeSForM 2015 - Aesthetics of interaction: Dynamic, Multisensory, Wise
978 88 6493 031 2
Exploring how meaningful experiences are addressed through digital interactive artefacts, this research investigates how design choices and techniques impact on emerging interactive experiences supporting effect of sense. Effect of sense is a semiotic phenomenon emerging between the perception of a designed product and the final receivers [1]. While it has been deeply explored for material product and tangible features [2], this paper investigates how the intangible dimension of digital interactive experiences mediates effect of sense. The focus is on digital interactive artifacts that enable meaningful play experiences [3], beyond traditional forms of entertainment and engagement that consider game void boxes without value and ideologies within. The paper advances this approach questioning in how many ways it is possible to enable effects of sense designing interactive processes, sensorial and perceptive features of games. This objective is driven by the emerging trend that shifts the attention towards digital representations and interactive contexts potentially carrying senses - and meanings - overcoming the conventional interpretation of meaningful play as prepackaged experiences decided by the designer a priori. The paper presents a selection of games as case study to enlighten the design dimensions and the techniques employed, in order to validate our hypothesis and set the basis for a design framework that moves from the wide concept of meaningful play to the design of interactive experiences based on sense-making processes.
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