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20 K. Isbister they are testing. Instead, they make note of any issues that seem to arise and include them in a post-play discussion with the play group. These are some preliminary recommendations for how to conduct evaluation of social play. This is still an emerging practice, and it will be important for developers and researchers to work together to evolve best practices for social play user experience evaluation. 2.1.6 Challenges and Future Directions User experience researchers and industry practitioners can certainly do a better job of sharing experiences and converging upon common practices and measures for evaluating and understanding social play. Amaya et al.’s chapter (2008) is an excellent beginning (as described in Section 2.1.5). We may all benefit from grounding our intuitions and observations in an understanding of the social phenomena that underpin social interaction in the context of play, such as those mentioned in Section 2.1.4.3. A recent paper in Computers in Entertainment (de Kort and IJsselsteijn 2008) provides a “framework describing social processes underlying situated social play” that may be of practical value for creating a more systematic and nuanced understanding of the mechanics at work in social play. Work in supporting social play among diverse groups (such as multi-generational games) is only just beginning and will require sophisticated design and evaluation strategies. Developing for novel interaction styles, such as the accelerometer-based physical play possible with the Nintendo Wii system, iPhone, and other mobile platforms, or the camera-enabled play made possible by the Sony eyeToy, should also lead us to new insights into what elicits fun and engagement in social play and how to measure it. Some believe that games are innovating modes of social interaction and enabling social engagement in new ways (Dyck et al. 2003, Jørgensen 2004), and so work in design and evaluation for social play may turn out to be an important driver in the field of social user experience with technology more broadly. I hope that this chapter will initiate further discussion of tactics for social play design and evaluation, helping us all to solidify our practice and innovate. References Amaya G, Davis JP, Gunn DV, Harrison C, Pagulayan R, Phillips B, Wixon D( 2008) Games user research (GUR) – Our experience with and evolution of four methods. In: Isbister K, Schaffer N (eds) Game Usability: Advice from the Experts. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA. Bandura A (1977) Social Learning Theory. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Batemen C, Boon R (2005) 21st Century Game Design. Charles River Media, Boston, MA. Bryant JA, Akerman A, Drell J (2008) Wee Wii: Preschoolers and motion-based game play. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, May 2008, Montreal, Canada. Collins J (1997) Conducting in-house play testing. Game Developer Magazine, February 1997 (retrieved from www.gamasutra.com).
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