Abstract 'Playfulness' is a concept used in various disciplines. In this article, we conduct a
qualitative, systematic, and interdisciplinary literature review on the term 'playfulness' as …

Our paper focuses on toyification. By this phenomenon, we point to two, parallel
developments: 1) The increasing prestige of toys, which start to find their way in classrooms …

The advancement of human-computer integration as a research field promises to introduce
transhumanistic ways of communicating through the enhanced abilities of augmented …

Playful research approaches have become more popular in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
In this paper, a tabletop role-playing game is introduced as a means to explore future robot …

Quali sono i motivi dietro al nostro descrivere comunemente i videogiochi come delle realtà
ed esperienze? Per rispondere a questa domanda, viene proposto un nuovo approccio allo …

The application of complex systems theories to the study of narratives proved able to offer a
high heuristic value for the analysis of movies [24, 26], TV series [35, 36], music [45] and …

This paper offers a semiotic perspective on how play is used to change the citizens'
perception of the city. The paper adopts a meaning-centred approach to playfulness (a …

This paper aims at using the tools of semiotic analysis and semiotics of play in order to re-
organise and specify the terminology surrounding the concept of gamification. In the first …

This paper investigates the use of the Klingon conlang outside the Star Trek franchise, trying
to shed some light on why people invest time and effort to learn a very complex fictional …

In the last decade, digital games have reached their maturity as a medium. They are now
one of the most important parts of the creative industries, both in regard to the profits they …