A toolkit for designing playful interactions: The four lenses of play

Bekker, Tilde; Valk, Linda de; Eggen, Berry

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“…Although tangible play artefacts have been found to have the potential for providing innovative ways for children to play, learn and exercise (Price et al, 2003;Bekker et al, 2014), they have not been explored much with adults and in particular older adults.…”

Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although only a handful set of recommendations have been offered for the design of playful experiences and interactions, all of them focus on the design of playful experiences for children and most are provided purely for the purposes of entertainment (Korhonen et al, 2009;Shackell et al, 2009;Bekker et al, 2014;Tieben et al, 2014).…”

Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

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“…First of all being generative means that users can create their own rules and games for play, therefore discovering each time a different experience and hence being encouraged to revisit and keep moving/exercising. Bekker et al (2014) refer to this as open-ended play and Tieben et al (2014) describe it as emergent play. For instance the generative design of the xylophone artefact in Active Parks encouraged user to invent and play their own games of 'Simon says', 'follow the light', etc (see Figure 7).…”

Section: Recommendation (Rec) 1: Emphasize Fun and Play Experiences Omentioning

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The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

Tsekleves¹,

Darby²

2020

Sensory Arts and Design

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The chapter provides an insight into the role of design and sensory experiences in public health and ageing well through the lenses of playful design. It presents, through a number of relevant examples, the role of playfulness as a trigger for engaging people and especially older adults with physical exercise through tangible play. Emphasis is placed on the potential, benefits and challenges of designing playful sensory experiences and activities (interventions) for public health and ageing well. Following a review of the relevant literature on playfulness and sensory experiences and health, a number of projects that incorporate playfulness and sensory experiences are presented. This is followed by a presentation of the Active Parks case study. Active Parks co-created an interactive and playful walking trail that offers casual physical activity in one of Lancaster city's park. Working with the local community and a several key stakeholders a number of interactive and playful multisensory proof-of-concept prototypes were designed, developed and tested in the park. Based on the literature and the aforementioned case study a number of recommendations are provided on how to design playful sensory experiences for public health. This is the first paper of its kind to offer such practical recommendations that aim at public health and playfulness focusing on adults and older users. Keywords: playfulness, public health, ageing well; playful design, co-design, participatory design, interactive play, interaction design, design in healthcare. four key values and ten practical recommendations on the design of playful experiences for public health and ageing well in urban spaces. Related Work Playfulness There are several definitions of 'playfulness'. The most common ones widely accepted in the literature define 'playfulness' as a dispositional tendency to engage in play (Van Vleet and Feeney, 2015) or the predisposition to frame (or reframe) a situation in such a way as to provide oneself (and possibly others) with amusement, humour, and/or entertainment (Barnett, 2007). Play and being playful is how we first experience the world around us (Barnett, 1990), losing ourselves in play, whether it was creating a make-believe world, throwing a ball between classmates, teasing and role-playing with friends, etc. Unfortunately as we grow older we tend to distance ourselves from playfulness and get locked into the linear, problemsolution, adult mind-set. As Stanley Hall put it: "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing" (Hall, 1904, pp 235). Although playfulness is traditionally associated with children, it is equally significant for adults. Van Vleet and Feeney (2015) identify in their review of the literature the importance of play behaviour and playfulness in adulthood and the need for more research in this area.

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Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

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Section: Playful Design Playfulness and Tangible Play In Healthmentioning

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Section: Recommendation (Rec) 1: Emphasize Fun and Play Experiences Omentioning

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The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

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Darby²

2020

Sensory Arts and Design

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“…Wood [10] presented one play lens, focusing on open and self-expressive play. In Bekker et al [2] the background for four different perspectives on play was described: open-ended play, playful experiences (grounded in the work by [1]), forms of play and stages of play.…”

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“…[8]. Where the four lenses presented in [2] are related to the play perspective, the emergence lens is related to the system perspective.…”

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Investigating Perspectives on Play

Bekker

Valk

Rijnbout

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Co-located augmented play-spaces: past, present, and perspectives

Delden

Gerritsen

Heylen

et al. 2018

J Multimodal User Interfaces

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In recent years, many different studies regarding Co-located Augmented Play-spaces (CAPs) have been published in a wide variety of conferences and journals. We present an overview. The work presented in these papers includes end user's perspectives as well as researcher's perspective. We place these within four aspects in this review: (1) Argumentation, the underlying reasons or the higher end goals to investigate interactive play from a user's perspective, (2) Systems, the kind of systems that are created, this includes their intended use which fits the end user's perspective, (3) Evaluation, the way in which the researchers evaluate the system, (4) Contribution, the goal of the studies from the researcher's perspective; what does the study contribute to the research community. CAPs are often multimodal in nature; this survey pays attention to the multimodal characteristics in relation to all four aspects. This overview contributes a clearer view on the current literature, points out where new opportunities lie, and hands us the tools for what we think is important: bringing the end-user and research perspective together in intervention based evaluations. In short, this paper discusses CAPs: their past, the present, and the perspectives.

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A toolkit for designing playful interactions: The four lenses of play

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

The Role of Playfulness and Sensory Experiences in Design for Public Health and for Ageing Well

Investigating Perspectives on Play

Co-located augmented play-spaces: past, present, and perspectives

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