Martin Gibbs

Automating Digital Afterlives

Robbie Fordyce, Bjørn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2021

The question of how the dead “live on” by maintaining a presence and connecting to the living within social networks has garnered ..

Media, mortality and necro-technologies: Eulogies for dead media

Bjorn Nansen, Hannah Gould, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

Working at the intersection of death studies and media studies, this article examines what we can learn from the death of media te..

Robot death care: A study of funerary practice

Hannah Gould, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by roboti..

Unpacking “Boardgames with Apps”: The Hybrid Digital Boardgame Model

Melissa J Rogerson, Lucy A Sparrow, Martin R Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Increasingly, modern boardgames incorporate digital apps and tools to deliver content in novel ways. Despite disparate approaches ..

The Ethics of Multiplayer Game Design and Community Management

Lucy A. Sparrow, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Game industry professionals are frequently implementing new methods of addressing ethical issues related to in-game toxicity and d..

From ‘Silly’ to ‘Scumbag’: Reddit Discussion of a Case of Groping in a Virtual Reality Game

Lucy Sparrow, Madeleine Antonellos, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere

This paper examines key discussion points among VR-interested Reddit users regarding a controversial case of VR groping reported i..

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

F Allison, M Carter, M Gibbs

Journal article  |  2020  |  Games and Culture

The use of voice interaction in digital games has a long and varied history of experimentation but has never achieved sustained, w..

Digital Domesticity Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken

Book  |  2020

While the home provides a necessary anchor point for our empirical and theoretical work, we are well aware that the home is not se..

Ludic Ethics: The Ethical Negotiations of Players in Online Multiplayer Games

LA Sparrow, M Gibbs, M Arnold

Journal article  |  2020  |  Games and Culture: a journal of interactive media

This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of players of online multiplayer games. ..

Apathetic villagers and the trolls who love them: Player amorality in online multiplayer games

L Sparrow, M Gibbs, M Arnold

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

Players are sometimes understood to hold an 'amoral' stance in games, morally disengaging from game content and in-game player beh..