Still on Vacation Heading into August and I am sti…

Still on Vacation
Heading into August and I am still seaside on vacation. I must admit that this point into my 5 week holiday, I get a bit homesick.
I am working on a paper for submission for the DAC conference, but it is hard to concentrate in a house of 9 people – no matter how big the house is.
This paper will (hopefully) explore how visual elements implemented into MMO’s to simplify navigation and gameplay affect the social elements of the game. Lets see if it materializes into something worth reading…

Published by Kelly Boudreau

Associate Professor of Interactive Media Theory & Design at Harrisburg University. I research Digital Games, Play, Sociality, Avatars, Toxicity, and Social Norms & Boundary Keeping. Thoughts and ramblings on this site are my own as I grapple with all the things professional and personal and everything in between.

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