[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Confirmation Seminar: Community Negotiated Game Rules In Online Multiplayer Games

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar.


PRESENTER:
Mitchell Owen Harrop, Interaction Design Group, University of Melbourne

TITLE:
PhD Confirmation Seminar: Community Negotiated Game Rules In Online
Multiplayer Games

VENUE:
University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton

DATE and TIME:
Friday 20 Nov 2009, 3.00 - 4.00 pm
 
ABSTRACT:
Remember when you were a little kid and you played a game with your
friends where you chased each other? Sometimes you'd feel someone wasn't
playing fairly (they ran out of bounds, they climbed a tree, they hid,
they kicked you in the shins) and a huge debate/riot would ensue about
what rules to play by. Sometimes the riot was half the fun.

Well, I'm here to tell you that half of the fun also happens in online
multiplayer games today. There are programmed rules, there are rules at
a social level and sometimes programmers change which are which through
the magic of engineering. The aim of this project is to investigate the
nature of these rules and how people bring them into play within
computer mediated environments. Of particular interest is the role of
rules in the ongoing design process of games. We'll be running through
the design of three studies which aim to get this done.

Mitchell also does stuff on iFish:
http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/jonmp/projects/iFISH/rFISH/runifi
sh.html, http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/jonmp/projects/iFISH/
 
BIO:
Mitchell Owen Harrop is a PhD candidate with the Interaction Design
Group, University of Melbourne.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/Research/InteractionDesign/seminars.htm
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Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate & Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
Room 4.65, ICT Building
University of Melbourne
+61 3 834 41516
darylk at unimelb.edu.au