Ben Kirman

According to our database, Ben Kirman authored at least 60 papers between 2007 and 2023.

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2023

Identifying the Developmental Challenges of Creating Virtual Reality Theatre: This paper reports on the identified challenges of creating virtual reality theatre from the practitioner's perspective.

Daniel Lock, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2023

2022

I Just Can't Believe These are not Fictitious: Vivifying design examples through narratives populated by existing artefacts.

Robb Mitchell, Ben Kirman, Enrique "Kin" Encinas

Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Mindtrek conference, 2022

Inscrutable Games: How Players Respond to Illegible or Opaque Game Design.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Tom Feltwell

Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Mindtrek conference, 2022

"The game doesn't judge you": game designers' perspectives on implementing failure in video games.

Charline Foch, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the FDG '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2022

2021

Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy.

Oliver Bates, Carolynne Lord, Hayley Alter, Adrian Friday, Ben Kirman

IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2021

Wait, But Why?: Assessing Behavior Explanation Strategies for Real-Time Strategy Games.

Justus Robertson, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Jonathan Hook, Ben Kirman, Florian Block, Marian Florin Ursu, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Anders Drachen, Oluseyi Olarewaju

Proceedings of the IUI '21: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2021

"Slow down and look": Desirable aspects of failure in video games, from the perspective of players.

Charline Foch, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the FDG'21: The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2021, 2021

What Are You Looking At? Team Fight Prediction Through Player Camera.

Marko Tot, Michelangelo Conserva, Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Alvaro Caceres Munoz, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Marian Ursu, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, Diego Pérez-Liébana

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

2020

DAX: Data-Driven Audience Experiences in Esports.

Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Simon Demediuk, Isabelle Nölle, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Sagarika Patra, Justus Robertson, Peter York, Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Alistair Coates, Daniel Slawson, Peter Hughes, Nicolas Hardie, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Anders Drachen, Marian Florin Ursu, Florian Block

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. IMX 2020, 2020

WARDS: Modelling the Worth of Vision in MOBA's.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Justus Robertson, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Marian Ursu, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Florian Block, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Intelligent Computing, 2020

Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers.

Oliver Bates, Carolynne Lord, Hayley Alter, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the ICT4S 2020: 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2020

Social Icebreakers Everywhere: A Day In The Life.

Robb Mitchell, Enrique Encinas, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 2020

What's Your Problem with the Dog Internet?

Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Imagining the Cool-ag: Or, Freedom Considered Harmful.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019, 2019

The future of techno-disruption in gig economy workforces: challenging the dialogue with fictional abstracts.

Oliver Bates, Christian Remy, Callum Nash, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019, 2019

2018

Reorienting Geolocation Data Through Mischievous Design.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the Funology 2 - From Usability to Enjoyment, Second Edition, 2018

Playful Research Fiction: A Fictional Conference.

Ben Kirman, Joseph Lindley, Mark Blythe, Paul Coulton, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan, Deborah Maxwell, Dan O'Hara, Miriam Sturdee, Vanessa Thomas

Proceedings of the Funology 2 - From Usability to Enjoyment, Second Edition, 2018

The futures of computing and wisdom.

Daniel Pargman, Elina Eriksson, Rob Comber, Ben Kirman, Oliver Bates

Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Oslo, 2018

"Grand Visions" for Post-Capitalist Human-Computer Interaction.

Tom Feltwell, Shaun W. Lawson, Enrique Encinas, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Deborah Maxwell, Tom Jenkins, Stacey Kuznetsov

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

2017

Counter-Discourse Activism on Social Media: The Case of Challenging "Poverty Porn" Television.

Tom Feltwell, John Vines, Karen Salt, Mark Blythe, Ben Kirman, Julie Barnett, Phillip Brooker, Shaun W. Lawson

Comput. Support. Cooperative Work., 2017

The role of social media in artisanal production: a case of craft beer.

Derek Foster, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the 21st International Academic Mindtrek Conference, AcademicMindtrek 2017, Tampere, Finland, September 20, 2017

"Could You Define That in Bot Terms"?: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit.

Kiel Long, John Vines, Selina Jeanne Sutton, Phillip Brooker, Tom Feltwell, Ben Kirman, Julie Barnett, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

MC Hammer Presents: The Hammer of Transformative Nostalgification - Designing for Engagement at Scale.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016

Power, participation, and the dog internet.

Shaun W. Lawson, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan

Interactions, 2016

Creating wheelchair-controlled video games: Challenges and opportunities when involving young people with mobility impairments and game design experts.

Kathrin Maria Gerling, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Michael Kalyn, Adam Evans, Kieran Hicks

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2016

2015

"After All the Time I Put Into This": Co-Creation and the End-of-life of Social Network Games.

Alexandra Samper-Martínez, Kathrin Maria Gerling, Ercilia García-Álvarez, Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

Exploring Twitter as a Game Platform; Strategies and Opportunities for Microblogging-based Games.

Kieran Hicks, Kathrin Maria Gerling, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Patrick Dickinson

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

Dendrogram Visualization as a Game Design Tool.

Tom Feltwell, Grzegorz Cielniak, Patrick Dickinson, Ben J. Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

Dead Fun: Uncomfortable Interactions in a Virtual Reality Game for Coffins.

James Brown, Kathrin Maria Gerling, Patrick Dickinson, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

Games Against Health: A Player-Centered Design Philosophy.

Conor Linehan, Sabine Harrer, Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Marcus Carter

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015

Problematising Upstream Technology through Speculative Design: The Case of Quantified Cats and Dogs.

Shaun W. Lawson, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Tom Feltwell, Lisa Hopkins

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015

2014

Learning curves: analysing pace and challenge in four successful puzzle games.

Conor Linehan, George Bellord, Ben Kirman, Zachary H. Morford, Bryan Roche

Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 19, 2014

Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futures.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Stuart Reeves, Mark Blythe, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Audrey Desjardins, Ron Wakkary

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Never mind the bollocks, i wanna be anarCHI: a manifesto for punk HCI.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Fifty shades of CHI: the perverse and humiliating human-computer relationship.

Laura Buttrick, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Dan O'Hara

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

2013

CHI and the future robot enslavement of humankind: a retrospective.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson, Dan O'Hara

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

Attack on the Clones: Managing Player Perceptions of Visual Variety and Believability in Video Game Crowds.

Sean Oxspring, Ben Kirman, Olivier Szymanezyk

Proceedings of the Advances in Computer Entertainment - 10th International Conference, 2013

BOLLOCKS!! Designing Pervasive Games That Play with the Social Rules of Built Environments.

Conor Linehan, Nick Bull, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the Advances in Computer Entertainment - 10th International Conference, 2013

2012

Blowtooth: a provocative pervasive game for smuggling virtual drugs through real airport security.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson

Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., 2012

Get lost: facilitating serendipitous exploration in location-sharing services.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

Exploring mischief and mayhem in social computing or: how we learned to stop worrying and love the trolls.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

2011

Playful networks : measuring, analysing and understanding the social effects of game design.

Ben Kirman

PhD thesis, 2011

"I Can Haz Emoshuns?"-Understanding Anthropomorphosis of Cats among Internet Users.

Derek Foster, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson, Daniel Mills, Sarah Ellis, Helen Zulch

Proceedings of the PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, Privacy, 2011

Social Architecture and the Emergence of Power Laws in Online Social Games.

Ben Kirman, Francesco Collova, Fabrizio Davide, Eva Ferrari, Jonathan Freeman, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan, Niklas Ravaja

Proceedings of the 2011 DiGRA International Conference: Think, Design, Play, 2011

Practical, appropriate, empirically-validated guidelines for designing educational games.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Gail Chan

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Social game studies at CHI 2011.

Ben Kirman, Staffan Björk, Sebastian Deterding, Janne Paavilainen, Valentina Rao

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Power ballads: deploying aversive energy feedback in social media.

Derek Foster, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

2010

Emergence and playfulness in social games.

Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, 2010

Motivating physical activity at work: using persuasive social media for competitive step counting.

Derek Foster, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Gary James

Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, 2010

Blowtooth: pervasive gaming in unique and challenging environments.

Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Mark Doughty

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Tagliatelle: social tagging to encourage healthier eating.

Conor Linehan, Mark Doughty, Shaun W. Lawson, Ben Kirman, Patrick Olivier, Paula Moynihan

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Improving social game engagement on facebook through enhanced socio-contextual information.

Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco Martino, Luciano Gamberini, Andrea Gaggioli

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

There's a monster in my kitchen: using aversive feedback to motivate behaviour change.

Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson, Derek Foster, Mark Doughty

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

2009

Developing a serious game to evaluate and train group decision making skills.

Conor Linehan, Shaun W. Lawson, Mark Doughty, Ben Kirman

Proceedings of the 13th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era, 2009

Mario, Luigi and Dave: the effect of language on the social structure of a bilingual online mobile game.

Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan

Proceedings of the 13th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era, 2009

Hardcore Classification: Identifying Play Styles in Social Games Using Network Analysis.

Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson

Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing, 2009

Gaming On and Off the Social Graph: The Social Structure of Facebook Games.

Ben Kirman, Shaun W. Lawson, Conor Linehan

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009

Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience.

Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun W. Lawson, Jonathan Freeman, Jane Lessiter, Conor Linehan

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2009

2008

Socially respectful enjoyment tracking for tabletop games.

Ben Kirman, Duncan Rowland

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

2007

The gopher game: a social, mobile, locative game with user generated content and peer review.

Sean Casey, Ben Kirman, Duncan Rowland

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2007