In this paper we review mobile location-based games for learning. These games are played
in physical space, but at the same time, they are supported by actions and events in an …

Digital games often constitute a shared activity where people can spend time together,
communicate and socialize. Several commercial titles place social interaction at the center …

Why play is a productive, expressive way of being human, a form of understanding, and a
fundamental part of our well-being. What do we think about when we think about play? A …

Collocated interaction has received growing interest in both academic research and the
design of information and communication technological applications. An emergent research …

After a decade of movement-based interaction in human–computer interaction, designing for
the moving body still remains a challenge. Research in this field requires methods to help …

The past decade has seen an increased focus on body movement in computer games. We
take a step further to look at body games: games in which the main source of enjoyment …

Gamification has been identified as an interesting technique to foster collaboration in
educational contexts. However, there are not many approaches that tackle this in primary …

This chapter focuses on children aged around 5‐11 insofar as this is the population most
able to extract value from digital content while also being intrinsically different from older …

There is an increasing trend in HCI on studying human-food interaction, however, we find
that most work so far seems to focus on what happens to the food before and during eating …

Participatory Design (PD) has been proposed as a useful strategy to address pitfalls in the
design of serious games for children with special needs. Nonetheless, methodological …