Martin Gibbs

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

Fraser Allison, Marcus Carter, Martin 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..

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..

"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2019

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

Frame analysis of voice interaction gameplay

F Allison, J Newn, W Smith, M Carter, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Voice control is an increasingly common feature of digital games, but the experience..

Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

The disposition of the destitute

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

Journal article  |  2019  |  Parity

The final disposition is a term used by people in the funeral industry to refer to the burial or cremation of a dead person. The f..

Uploading the ancestors: Experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan

Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

Domestic Buddhist altars have long provided symbolically and materially rich media for venerating the dead in Japan. However, as J..

Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-Engagement with Digital Games

Bjorn Nansen, Jane Mavoa, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2018

Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this book sho..

Introduction to the Special Issue: Selected Articles from the 2017 International DIGRA Conference

Editorship  |  2018  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association