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Play in the Algorithmic City

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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016 2016)

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In this paper, the algorithmic city is introduced as a framework for understanding urban space in terms of its underlying code and systems. It is connected to urban codemaking, a playful approach to public art that asks players to engage with codes of urban space. To connect these two concepts in a framework for pervasive game design, players are framed as sensors and actuators within the algorithmic city to make it more playable.

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  1. Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, Hawthorn, Vic., Australia

    Troy Innocent

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ronald Poppe

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Meyer

  3. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Remco Veltkamp

  4. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

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Innocent, T. (2017). Play in the Algorithmic City. In: Poppe, R., Meyer, JJ., Veltkamp, R., Dastani, M. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_26

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