A game design methodology to incorporate social activist themes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 181-190

  Flanagan, Mary ^a   Nissenbaum, Helen ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activist games; Design methods; Game design; Values

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AIDS; EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; USER INTERFACES;

ACTIVIST GAMES; DESIGN METHODS; GAME DESIGN; VALUES AT PLAY (VAP);

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 35348886681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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