Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

Alejandro Manuel Moreno Celleri; Ronald Walter Poppe; Dirk K.J. Heylen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games

Alejandro Manuel Moreno Celleri, Ronald Walter Poppe, Dirk K.J. Heylen

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Abstract

Promoting social behavior is one of the key goals in interactive games. In this paper, we present an experimental study in the Interactive Tag Playground (ITP) to investigate whether social behaviors reported in literature can also be observed through automated analysis. We do this by analyzing players’ positions and roles, which the ITP logs automatically. Specifically, we address the effect that gender and age have on the amount of tags and the distance that players keep between them. Our findings largely replicate existing research, although not all hypothesized differences reached a level of statistical significance. With this proof-of-concept study, we have paved the way for the automated analysis of play, which can aid in making interactive playgrounds more engaging.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	146-157
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-49615-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016
Event	8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2016 - Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 28 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016 Conference number: 8 http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/home

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Volume	178
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)	1867-8211

Conference

Conference	8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2016
Abbreviated title	INTETAIN 2016
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	28/06/16 → 30/06/16
Internet address	http://www.intetain.org/2016/show/home

Keywords

Social behavior analysis
EWI-27428
Children’s play
IR-102939
Interactive Playgrounds
METIS-320893
Ambient entertainment

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Moreno Celleri, A. M., Poppe, R. W., & Heylen, D. K. J. (2016). Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers (pp. 146-157). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 178). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

Moreno Celleri, Alejandro Manuel ; Poppe, Ronald Walter ; Heylen, Dirk K.J. / Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers. Berlin : Springer, 2016. pp. 146-157 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Moreno Celleri, AM, Poppe, RW & Heylen, DKJ 2016, Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 178, Springer, Berlin, pp. 146-157, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2016, Utrecht, Netherlands, 28/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14

Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. / Moreno Celleri, Alejandro Manuel; Poppe, Ronald Walter; Heylen, Dirk K.J.

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers. Berlin : Springer, 2016. p. 146-157 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 178).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Moreno Celleri AM, Poppe RW, Heylen DKJ. Play with Me! Gender-Typed Social Play Behavior Analysis in Interactive Tag Games. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016), Revised Selected Papers. Berlin: Springer. 2016. p. 146-157. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_14