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Lessons Learned from Designing and Implementing Interaction Mechanics for Viewer Participation in Game Streaming

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Live streaming of video games is a new form of entertainment attracting millions of users. A unique combination of broadcasting and chat rooms transforms traditionally passive spectating into a deeper social experience. In this paper, we investigate six interaction mechanics that allow viewers to participate actively and to possibly alter the outcome of streamed games with the goal to explore challenges with respect to implementing these mechanics.

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  1. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Mrázek & Simone Kriglstein

  2. Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada

    Pejman Mirza-Babaei

  3. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Günter Wallner

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  1. University of West London, London, UK

    José Abdelnour Nocera

  2. Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir

  3. University of York, York, UK

    Helen Petrie

  4. University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Piccinno

  5. Université Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Marco Winckler

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Mrázek, P., Mirza-Babaei, P., Wallner, G., Kriglstein, S. (2023). Lessons Learned from Designing and Implementing Interaction Mechanics for Viewer Participation in Game Streaming. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_65

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