Social comics: A casual authoring game

Proceedings of HCI 2011 - 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 259-268

  Lapides, Paul ^a   Sharlin, Ehud ^a   Sousa, Mario Costa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer games; Emotive and fun interfaces; Group interaction; Social interaction design; User generated game content

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMIC STRIPS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DESIGN FRAMEWORKS; GAME CONTENTS; GAME EXPERIENCE; GROUP INTERACTION; SOCIAL GATHERINGS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84900398922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2011.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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