NDLI: Understanding situated action in ludic ecologies

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Understanding situated action in ludic ecologies

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lutters, Wayne G. Peyton, Tamara Young, Alyson L.
Abstract	In order to understand the social mechanics of alternate reality games, this paper presents a situated action analysis of one game, "I Love Bees". We examine the action traces found within the ILB forum accounts around teamwork and puzzle solving. The playful assemblages demonstrate that the presence or absence of certain non-human actants has a definite impact on each "ludic ecology," and that each impact is contextually specific. We found that the careful design of in-game challenges by the game designers worked differently in practice because of the impact of unconsidered non-human actants. In response, players formed teams and adopted technologies to overcome their specific temporal, spatial and organizational constraints. Therefore, designers need to provide appropriate sociotechnical infrastructure to support player needs, and nonhuman actants should be considered when studying and designing hybrid digital/physical environments.
Starting Page	100
Ending Page	109
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450321044
DOI	10.1145/2482991.2483000
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2013-06-29
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Qualitative research methods Ludic systems Alternate reality games Teamwork
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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