Tyler Thesis Bibliography

Also see: http://del.icio.us/phreakhead/thesis

The Social Life of Information - John Seely Brown

Play

"Mark Twain commented that play and work are words used to describe the same activity under different circumstances." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_%28activity%29

Homo Ludens - Johan Huizinga

Rules of Play -- Katie, Zimmerman?

Game Theory

Jesper Juul - contemporary game theorist

The Open and the Closed: Games of Emergence and Games of Progression - paper describing how simple rules can lead to endless variation.

On Game Design - Chris Crawford x

Emergence

John. D. Holland: Emergence. Redwood City: Addison-Wesley 1998.

"Self-organization usually relies on four basic ingredients

1. Positive feedback 2. Negative feedback 3. Balance of exploitation and exploration 4. Multiple interactions" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

Structuralism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss - inventor of societal structuralism. wrote Structural Anthropology.

The Order of Things - Michel Foucault

The Gift - Marcel Mauss - wrote on the Gift Economy and how it relies on recipicosity.

Collaborative Theory

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97302&coll=portal&dl=ACM - paper on VideoDraw, a study in how ppl collaborate in drawing.

http://theartdontstop.org/show_topic.php?id=10069 - examples of high school collaborative drawing projects.

http://collaborativedrawingintermission.blogspot.com/ - art installation for collaborative drawing

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16195285 - REALLY INTERESTING collaborative drawing versioning a la a mask.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/cosu/1995/00000004/00000001/00092210 - research done on how groups interact collaboratively. GOOD $

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CRIWG.2000.885163- research on groupware: collaborative drawing with a social, 'regulatory' aspect. $

http://www.springerlink.com/content/l1p6q42383856001/#search=%22collaborative%20drawing%22 - Comparing collaborative drawing tools and whiteboards: An analysis of the group process. looks alright $

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n5g471712101802u/#search=%22collaborative%20drawing%22 - Survey of collaborative drawing support tools. some research done on collaborative drawing $

http://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025945,60158762p-39000361q,00.htm - Online Collaborative Drawing Board for Real-Time Student-Instructor Interaction and Lecture Creation. looks boring.

Collaborative Drawing Sites

http://pensive-pondering.blogspot.com/2006/08/collaborative-drawing.html - good compendum of cool drawing sites.

http://www.tabletpcblogs.com/blogs/fury/archive/2006/07/10/9933.aspx - about drawball.com, a graffitti site. hard to draw, choppy response, but cool 'zooming' in feature. limits the amount of ink you can use per day.

http://www.imagination3.com - GE's drawing app. can draw with friends, but you have to save drawings to email.

http://www.isketch.net - pictionary game with chat and drawing functionality.

http://www.inkscape.org/ - open source drawing program which has Inkboard, a collaborative drawing app.

Possible Games

http://www.uidaho.edu/artdesign/foundations/dwg1/projects/studio/collaborate/index.html - take apart an image and give each person part, they mod it and then put them all back together.