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Showing 1 to 20 of 294 for “"playful"”.
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Designing Playful Systems
… by artists and scholars alike. Being in a playful state does not warrant extrinsic motivation or being conscious of an external purpose. However, play creates meaning, and scientists are pursuing functional explanations for it. These conflicting observations are contributing to the …
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Playful architecture - Constructing sociality
This thesis explores themes of playful architecture, and how activated, adaptable, and dynamic spaces can be created through embracing the inherent instability of social space. The exploration focuses on the social aspects of space and on an architecture that is capable of encouraging connection …
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The Living Experience of Feeling Playful
<p>Feeling playful is a universal living experience. The human becoming paradigm of sciencing the art that is nursing guided the study. The purposes of this nursing science were to uncover the structure of the universal living experience of feeling playful, to contribute to the development of the …
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Playful Labors: Narrative, Work and Digital Games
"This dissertation applies a critical cultural studies approach to digital gaming. Specifically, I examine the strategic simulation genre, often called ""god games,"" such as SimCity, Civilization , and The Sims. Two ideas guide the various readings and analyses of digital games. First, despite …
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Playful calculation : tangible coding for visual calculation
… are one such place where individuals can be playful with the rigor and firmness of calculation. Shape grammars demonstrate this most eloquently by providing a playful system of design inquiry based on rules and schemas. Through embedding and shape emergence, designers can enter into a state …
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Performing Architecture: A Thesis on Playful Design
… I experimented with multiple scales of playful design. I will show you how I implemented the idea of play for the design of a kite, a toy, a furniture piece, and a building. All of these projects are examples of designs that could have been static elements, but instead were designed to …
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Playful Occupations: Mobile Creative Coding for Critical Consciousness
The transformative potential of technology is often championed as a catalyst for societal progress, offering pathways to address challenges and create more inclusive futures. Despite this optimistic perspective of technology as a force for positive change, it often falls short of expectations. As …
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Committee of N : playful design in teacher education
Committee of N is a collaborative card game where players deepen their learning about educational policy and the history of education in the U.S. by creating new kinds of schools based on design constraints implemented through random card draws. In the core game play, players are randomly assigned …
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Telebug : a playful link between child and toy
Telebug is a prototype toy that directly connects with a child and their environment to respond in a meaningful way. To better understand and connect with the child, Telebug uses an array of wireless sensors. To respond in an interesting way, Telebug moves and "speaks" according to the data from …
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An Investigation into Playful Interactive Experiences within Public Space
… than physical. Research hypothesis suggests playful designs as catalysts for change will alter spatial usage and user perceptions, thus creating exciting places for public life. Ideally a ‘playful interactive experience’ is seemingly humorous participatory design unexpectedly intervening with …
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The playful advantage: how playfulness enhances coping with stress
… study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping. Research on playfulness has long centered on its connection to development in children, while the study of playfulness in adulthood has just recently commenced. Similarly, the psychology …
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AutomaTiles : tangible cellular automata for playful engagement with systems thinking
… a new tool and interface, consisting of playful objects called AutomaTiles, I propose a new approach for fostering a more aware society of systems thinkers. AutomaTiles provide a three-tiered approach to making systems thinking more accessible. Firstly, AutomaTiles are a friendly and …
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Playful behaviour in relation to family group activity in polecats (Mustelidae)
… periods and following their completion. The more playful animals also showed a tendency to play together more, choice of partners being dependent on relative availability and playfulness of other animals. The results of this study suggest that in polecat/ferrets play functions mainly as a …
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The role of playful practice for learning in the early years
… of play which also gives insight into playfulness, the approach or attitude taken to an activity and it is this which is thought to facilitate learning. It has been shown that children use cues to define an activity as play and three of the studies employed experimental methodology to …
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The playful Karoo: digitizing the South African Anthropocene in video games
The Karoo in South Africa, with its distinctive natural landscape, remains an underexplored setting in video games. In this thesis, I reimagine Jane Rosenthal’s novel, Souvenir (2004), as a virtual reality video game, using its speculative, science-fiction vision of the Karoo to immerse the player …
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Flowness + FlowBlocks : uncovering the dynamics of everyday life through playful modeling
It is not easy to understand the dynamics underlying everyday life. The change around us is so ubiquitous; the processes governing change are invisible; the relationships between cause & effect are usually disconnected in time or space, and probabilistic causation adds uncertainty to the mix. This …
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Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
This thesis examines Iris Murdoch's novels in the light of her philosophical thinking. It places her ethical thinking in the context of twentieth century moral philosophy and shows that her approach to the problems of the subject is out of key with the general run of contemporary philosophical …
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