The regular issue of the second semester of 2025 (JDMI Vol. 8, No. 20) is now available.

This regular issue, titled “Friction in Games and Computational Media”, guest-edited by Pedro Cardoso and Miguel Carvalhais, explores current discourses and practices on how we can design for aesthetic friction while avoiding the pitfalls of hedonistic loops and overly human-centred design approaches. It calls for strategies that deliberately introduce friction into interactions with computational systems in order to foster meaningfulness and enhance the quality of experience with computational artefacts.

The issue is organized into four thematic groups: Play; Art; Human; More-than-Human.

The full issue is available here.