Mobile Games as Social Information Appliances from Over the Air 2009

1. Mobile games as Social Information Appliances Dr Paul Coulton

2. Dawn of Pre-Raphaelite Gaming?

3. Pre-Raphaelite Gaming

4. Social Capital Bridging Bonding

5. 150? (Dunbar’s Number) Grooming gossip

6. Emergent Social Activity

7. Emergent Social Activity

8. Situated Play

9. Serendipity

10. Physicality or seeing what isn't there!

11. Games with Intamacy

12. LOLApps(evolved from the LOLCats)

13. Information Appliances and Memes Design axioms ‘Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and that directly shape and propagate key actions and mindsets of a social group’ Simplicity Versatility Pleasurability

14. Social Information Appliances or Mobile Meme Machine

15. What could this look like?

16. Questions Twitter MysticMobile