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A study in play, pleasure and interaction design

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This paper focuses on the design of pleasurably playful interfaces within an interactive art context. It describes the development of a framework of thirteen pleasures of play and outlines the application of this framework during the design process of three interactive artworks. These processes included both initial conceptual development stages and later user evaluation studies. The paper compares the artist's view of the pleasures that might be experienced in each work with the actual pleasures experienced by users during evaluation sessions. The results suggest that the pleasure framework is a useful tool to aid in the design of playful interfaces.

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        DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces
        August 2007
        532 pages
        ISBN:9781595939425
        DOI:10.1145/1314161

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