BioSpil: Bringing Interactivity and Gaming into a Cinema-Context

This paper presents a study on a current phenomenon conceptualized as BioSpil, which brings interactivity and gaming into a cinema context. The study focused on two questions, namely in what way BioSpil can be called a game, and how it functions as a social game. The study applied an ethnographic ap...

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Published inInteractivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation pp. 445 - 457
Main Authors Tretow-Fish, Tobias, Andersen, Dan, Larsen, Lisa Klemm, Brooks, Eva
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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BioSpil
Cinema
Commercials
Explorative study
Game design theory
Games
Interactivity
Mobile phones
Thematic analysis
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Summary:This paper presents a study on a current phenomenon conceptualized as BioSpil, which brings interactivity and gaming into a cinema context. The study focused on two questions, namely in what way BioSpil can be called a game, and how it functions as a social game. The study applied an ethnographic approach. The analysis showed that BioSpil had a game-like character, but were, to a certain extent, in conflict with two of Calliois’ categories that can define a game, namely being free and separate in time and space. The aspect of a game as being free, is not only dependent on accessibility in terms of devices, but also on cultural and contextual factors. This influenced the conditions of what constitute accepted and expected behaviors of visitors in a cinema-context. Furthermore, the analysis identified that BioSpil offered three kinds of social spaces; an active, a passive, and an external space.
ISBN:3319769073
9783319769073
ISSN:1867-8211
1867-822X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-76908-0_43