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Thinking inside the XBox: elements of information organization in video games

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Jin Ha Lee,

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iConference '11: Proceedings of the 2011 iConference

Pages 706 - 707

https://doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940878

Published: 08 February 2011 Publication History

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Video games are a novel and unique context in which numerous principles of information organization can be observed. In this poster, we explore the intersection of video games and formal information organization by examining several examples from popular video games. By doing so, we highlight some of the common organization principles that are applied in video game design, and perhaps discover new ways of organizing information objects and assess their application in real life contexts.

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Lee JClarke RRossi S(2016)A qualitative investigation of users' discovery, access, and organization of video games as information objectsJournal of Information Science10.1177/016555151561859442:6(833-850)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1177/0165551515618594

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Thinking inside the XBox: elements of information organization in video games
1. Mathematics of computing
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Lee JClarke RRossi S(2016)A qualitative investigation of users' discovery, access, and organization of video games as information objectsJournal of Information Science10.1177/016555151561859442:6(833-850)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
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