Playful Furniture: Breaching a Serious Setting With Interactive Seats

Annakaisa Kultima; Timo Nummenmaa; Heikki Tyni; Kati Alha; Jaakko Stenros; Ville Kankainen; Jussi Holopainen; Frans Mäyrä

doi:10.1177/1555412017718749

Playful Furniture: Breaching a Serious Setting With Interactive Seats

Annakaisa Kultima
, Timo Nummenmaa
, Heikki Tyni^*
, Kati Alha
, Jaakko Stenros
, Ville Kankainen
, Jussi Holopainen
, Frans Mäyrä

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review

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Abstract

Are shaggy seats which make cute noises playful or disruptive in a conference setting? This article pushes the limits of game scholars’ lusory attitude by breaching an academic seminar with a playful experiment. Five MurMur Moderator seats, interactive and interruptive furniture prototypes, were set up at a game research seminar where they were used as ambient elements during the presentations. The experience was evaluated by observation, accompanied with seminar tweets, and by conducting a small survey after the seminar. The experiences of the participants varied from enthusiastically positive to strong negative feelings. Through this experiment, we were able to explore the important issue of polarized attitudes of adults toward play and provide some food for thought for the future design of adult play.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	301-321
Journal	Games and Culture
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412017718749
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2018
Externally published	Yes

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adult play
ambient play
auditive play
breaching experiment
conference games
playful furniture

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