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- research-articleOctober 2017
Memory Must Not Be Lost: "Progetto Ustica" and Civically-Engaged Games
CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in PlayPages 87–97https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131434Progetto Ustica is an experiment in "civically-engaged game design" and addresses the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), where 81 people lost their lives as an air-to-air missile hit a civilian aircraft in 1980. Progetto Ustica has been developed as ...
- research-articleAugust 2010
Water wars: designing a civic game about water scarcity
DIS '10: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive SystemsPages 340–343https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858232There has been growing interest in recent years in computer games that not only entertain, but also address pressing social issues. In this paper, we introduce "civic games" as a class of socially-engaged games whose intent is to involve citizens in ...