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Gregor Broll, Steve Benford, Leif Oppermann
Exploiting Seams in Mobile Phone Games
3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Application (PerGames 2006), In Pervasive 2006 Workshop Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, May 7, 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018411-6

Seamful design is a novel approach to Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing systems that reveals and exploits inevitable technical limitations and boundaries as well as their effects on seamless interaction rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas, point out common seams on the mobile phone platform and show how people might accommodate to seams and use them for their own advantage as useful features of an applica-tion. We apply the approach to seamful design to our own location-based mo-bile game called Tycoon and incorporate different seams into its gameplay for better interaction and usability through the exploitation and appropriation of these seams.