Reciprocal innovation in modding communities as a means of increasing cultural diversity and historical accuracy in video games

3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 362-368

  Moshirnia, Andrew V ^a   Walker, Anthony C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collaborative design; Emergent features; New roles of the instructor learner; Reciprocal innovation

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMMERCIAL VIDEO; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMERGENT FEATURES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PRODUCTION PROCESS; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84873369494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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