Game design principles for engaging cooperative play: Core mechanics and interfaces for non-mimetic simulation of fire emergency response

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, Sandbox '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-78

  Toups, Zachary O ^a   Kerne, Andruid ^a   Hamilton, William ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Cooperation; Coordination; Core mechanics; Emergency response; Interface design; Work practice

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; COOPERATION COORDINATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIRE EMERGENCIES; GAME DESIGN; INFORMATION DISTRIBUTIONS; INFORMATION FLOWS; INTEGRATED CORE; INTERFACE DESIGNS; RIGHT INFORMATION; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SHARING INFORMATION; SIMULATION GAMES; TEAM COORDINATION; USER STUDY; WORK PRACTICES;

DESIGN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SIMULATORS;

MECHANICS;

EID: 70450277800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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