Search for dissertations about: "playful"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the word playful.

  2. 1. Designing Public Play : Playful Engagement, Constructed Activity, and Player Experience

    Author : Jon Back; Annika Waern; Barry Brown; José P. Zagal; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; design; public; play; playful; playfulness; game; activity; experience; second order design; engage; engagement; fun; magic circle; brink games; pervasive games; place; space; co-creativity; empowerment; game jam; busking; street performance; playground; Human-Computer Interaction; Människa-dator interaktion;

    Abstract : This thesis sets out to explore why people engage in, and how to design for, play in a public setting. It does this by separating design for play from design of games, describing play as a socially and mentally understood activity, and a playful approach to engaging in that activity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Triptych of quantum matter in one dimension : Playful constructions in theoretical and computational physics

    Author : Axel Gagge; Jonas Larson; Andrew Daley; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bloch oscillations; Peierls; adiabatic; diabatic; ultracold atoms; Bose-Fermi mixtures; phonon; cQED; superradiance; polarons; DMRG; MPS; Kosterlitz-Thouless; Wannier; Bloch; quantum phase transitions; Theoretical Physics; teoretisk fysik;

    Abstract : In this compilation thesis, three different quantum mechanical systems are presented. All three have in common that they are one-dimensional quantum systems which, each in their own way, can be seen as analogous to other quantum systems. READ MORE

  5. 3. Lexicographic and Social Choice, Takeovers, and Fixed Points

    Author : Henrik Petri; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of six independent theoretical papers in economic theory.... READ MORE

  6. 4. Playing at Work : Organizational Play as a Facilitator of Creativity

    Author : Samuel West; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; improvisation; workplace meetings; organizations; innovation; organizational creativity; playfulness; creativity; Play;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how play may benefit creativity in organizational contexts. Play and playfulness have previously been linked to creativity in children and adults, but empirical organizational research is scarce. A widely accepted definition of creativity is that it involves the production of something that is both novel and appropriate. READ MORE

  7. 5. Designing Activity and Creating Experience : On People’s Play in Public places

    Author : Jon Back; Annika Waern; Barry Brown; Oskar Juhlin; Staffan Björk; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; game design; play; activity; experience; enjoyment; fun; människa-datorinteraktion; Human-machine interaction; Mobile Life; Mobile Life;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the design of play in public places; this can mean both pervasive games and other freer play activities. In these activities (as well as in many other game activities) the same game can spur many different ways to play it, and the same activity can be experienced differently by different players, and even differently on different occasions for the same player. READ MORE