Zachary O. Toups

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Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities

The Games-and-Play community has thrived at ACM SIGCHI with a consistent increase in games- and play-related submissions across research papers, workshops, posters, demos, and competitions. The community has attracted a significant number of academic researchers, students, and practitioners to CHI conferences in recen…

CSCW '18CorrespondingWorkshop: Collaborative Mixed Reality Games

Workshop: Collaborative Mixed Reality Games

Collaborative mixed reality games enable shared social experiences, in which players interact with the physical and virtual game environment, and with other players in real-time. Such social games enable different interaction modes, in which players engage with combinations of co-located physical environments, remote…

CHI '184th AuthorGamification Design +1

Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games

In distributed multiplayer games, it can be difficult to communicate strategic information for planning game moves and player interactions. Often, players spend extra time communicating, reducing their engagement in the game. Visual annotations in game maps and in the gameworld can address this problem and result in m…

CHI '183rd AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Playing to Wait: A Taxonomy of Idle Games

Idle games are a recent minimalist gaming phenomenon in which the game is left running with little player interaction. We deepen understanding of idle games and their characteristics by developing a taxonomy and identifying game features. This paper examines 66 idle games using a grounded theory approach to analyze p…

CHI '185th+ AuthorMultiplayer & Social Games +2

A Design Framework for Awareness Cues in Distributed Multiplayer Games

In the physical world, teammates develop situation awareness about each other's location, status, and actions through cues such as gaze direction and ambient noise. To support situation awareness, distributed multiplayer games provide awareness cues - information that games automatically make available to players to s…

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