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An Exploration of Designing for Playfulness in a Business Context

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CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3136 - 3143

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892332

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

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The Playful Experiences (PLEX) framework is a categorization of 22 experiences that has been used to design for and evaluate aspects of playfulness. The design activities performed using PLEX have been conducted mostly within an academic research context. This paper investigates through three studies how to design for and evaluate playful user experiences in business at three stages of the design process: idea generation, conceptualization, and evaluation. Based on the findings, opportunities and challenges of designing for playfulness within business are discussed.

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An Exploration of Designing for Playfulness in a Business Context
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Cho HLee YLee WLee CCiolfi LHogan TDöring TJenkins Tvan Dijk JHuron SLi ZCoyle DSigner B(2024)Thermo-Play: Exploring the Playful Qualities of Thermochromic MaterialsProceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3623509.3633376(1-16)Online publication date: 11-Feb-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3623509.3633376
Altarriba Bertran FTurmo Vidal LDagan EDuval JMárquez Segura EIsbister KBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Chasing Play with Instagram: How Can We Capture Mundane Play Potentials to Inspire Interaction Design?Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382913(1-8)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3382913
Altarriba Bertran FMárquez Segura EDuval JIsbister K(2019)Designing for Play that Permeates Everyday Life: Towards New Methods for Situated Play DesignProceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 201910.1145/3363384.3363400(1-4)Online publication date: 19-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3363384.3363400

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