Melissa Rogerson

Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Online Social Activities

W Zhao, RM Kelly, MJ Rogerson, J Waycott

Journal article  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited opportunities for older people to participate in face-to-face organis..

Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Online Social Activities

Wei Zhao, Ryan M Kelly, Melissa J Rogerson, Jenny Waycott

Journal article  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited opportunities for older people to participate in face-to-face organis..

Prevalence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australian primary care patients: only part of the story?

Nneka Orji, Julie A Campbell, Karen Wills, Martin Hensher, Andrew J Palmer, Melissa Rogerson, Ryan Kelly, Barbara de Graaff

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: ME/CFS is a disorder characterized by recurrent fatigue and intolerance to exertion which manifests as profound post-e..

Panel: Hybrid Tabletop Games

Aaron Trammell, Melissa Rogerson, Thomas Apperley, Ville Kankainen

Presentation  |  2022

In the past five to ten years, the number of hybrid tabletop games which combine digital tools with physical components has grown,..

Let's play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads

Brian McKitrick, Martin Gibbs, Melissa J Rogerson, Bjorn Nansen, Charlotte Pierce

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNET HISTORIES

The Something Awful Let’s Play subforum is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the Let’s Play (LP) media phenomenon. LPs typi..

"What are you Bringing to the Table?": The Something Awful Let's Play Community as a Serious Leisure Subculture

Brian McKitrick, Melissa Rogerson, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen

Journal article  |  2022  |  GAMES AND CULTURE

Within the last decade, Let’s Plays, recordings of gameplay with commentary by the person playing, have grown in popularity and at..

The SMeFT Decks: A Card-Based Ideation Tool for Designing Hybrid Digital Boardgames for Distanced Play

Melissa Rogerson, Lucy Sparrow, Sophie Freeman

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction

Increasing numbers of people have turned to playing boardgames with physically distant friends and family via technological tools,..

Observing multiplayer boardgame play at a distance

MJ Rogerson, J Newn, R Singh, E Baillie, M Papasimeon, L Benke, T Miller

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  CHI PLAY '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

More than 18 months after it was first identified, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to restrict researchers' opportunities to condu..

More Than a Gimmick - Digital Tools for Boardgame Play

MJ Rogerson, LA Sparrow, MR Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Despite increasing interest in the use of digital tools in boardgames for both commercial and research purposes, little research h..

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 ..