Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

Alejandro Moreno; R.W. Poppe; Dirk K J Heylen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

Alejandro Moreno, R.W. Poppe, Dirk K J Heylen

University of Twente

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Abstract

Promoting social behavior is one of the key goals in interactive games. In this paper, we present an experimental study in the Interactive Tag Playground (ITP) to investigate whether social behaviors reported in literature can also be observed through automated analysis. We do this by analyzing players’ positions and roles, which the ITP logs automatically. Specifically, we address the effect that gender and age have on the amount of tags and the distance that players keep between them. Our findings largely replicate existing research, although not all hypothesized differences reached a level of statistical significance. With this proof-of-concept study, we have paved the way for the automated analysis of play, which can aid in making interactive playgrounds more engaging.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN)
Publisher	Springer
Pages	146-157
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Volume	178
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

Keywords

Interactive playgrounds
Social behavior analysis
Children’s play
Ambient entertainment

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Moreno, A., Poppe, R. W., & Heylen, D. K. J. (2016). Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN) (pp. 146-157). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 178). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

Moreno, Alejandro ; Poppe, R.W. ; Heylen, Dirk K J. / Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN). Springer, 2016. pp. 146-157 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. / Moreno, Alejandro; Poppe, R.W.; Heylen, Dirk K J.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN). Springer, 2016. p. 146-157 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 178).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Moreno A, Poppe RW, Heylen DKJ. Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN). Springer. 2016. p. 146-157. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

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