Mobile games as Social Information Appliances

Dr Paul Coulton

Dawn of Pre-Raphaelite Gaming?

Pre-Raphaelite Gaming

Social Capital

BRIDGING BONDING

150? (Dunbar’s Number)

GROOMING GOSSIP

Emergent Social Activity

Emergent Social Activity

Situated Play

Serendipity

Physicality or seeing what isn't there!

Games with Intamacy

LOLApps (evolved from the LOLCats)

Information Appliances and Memes

DESIGN AXIOMS

Simplicity Versatility Pleasurability

‘Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and that directly shape and propagate key actions and mindsets of a social group’

Social Information Appliances or Mobile Meme Machine

What could this look like?

Questions

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