Assessing users mental models in designing complex systems

Melguizo, Mari Carmen Puerta; Chisǎliţǎ, Cristina; Veer, Gerrit C. van der

doi:10.1109/icsmc.2002.1175734

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“…When playing, players used two very different mental models (Puerta-Melguizo, Chisalita, & Van der Veer, 2002). Firstly, they were deciphering the Mind Module, drawing upon their own knowledge of how emotions, moods and personality work, and using that knowledge when both creating Manifestations, and in tactical game play.…”

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Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMO

Eladhari

2012

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This article discusses how components in a game world can carry meaning relevant to individual players.The discussion is grounded in work with a massively multi-player online (MMO) prototype where players in guided play-tests created their own opponents that they battled in groups of three. The opponents are called Manifestations, and can be compared to the "boss monsters" that in adventure and role-playing games pose the greatest challenges in terms of tactical game play, or battle. When creating Manifestations players define how these shall behave in play, and what they say under different circumstances. The game play mechanics in the world is centred on emotions and social relations. One of the design goals in the creation of the prototype was to cater for a system where tactical game play can be closely tied to the potential narrative contents.The Manifestations players created in the play tests were of four main categories; reflections of persons they had complicated relationships with in real life, difficult situations, abstract concepts, or purely fictional entities. In several cases players brought material into the game that had personal meaning to them. These meanings were developed further when players saw how their Manifestation behaved within the rule system of the world. For example, one player created a Manifestation of an anticipated exam, while another made a Manifestation called "Mother". The Mother cast spells called "Focused Aggression" and "Cold Ripple of Fear". It was able to perform acts called "Blame", "Threaten", and "Disagree". The group experimented with tactical choices, while reasoning about the Mother's potential motivations. They managed to overcome the Mother by alternating between giving each other resistance and casting spells, the winning stroke being a rapid series of spells called "Forgive".

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Section: Discussion: Intentionality and Meaningmentioning

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Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMO

Eladhari

2012

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“…Techniques used here may be derived from Ethnography or Anthropology, like the use of cultural probes and the application of hermeneutics [9], [10]. • The audience of the visuals, the customers of the client of design brings their own context and culture.…”

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Teaching Visual Design as a Holistic Enterprise

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Verbruggen

2011

Human Aspects of Visualization

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“…In a teach-back survey [28], most of the 50 bioinformaticians with workflow experience we interviewed found the idea of an ad-hoc WfMSs appealing [29].…”

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e-BioFlow: Improving Practical Use of Workflow Systems in Bioinformatics

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Information Technology in Bio- And Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2010

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Abstract. Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are useful tools for bioinformaticians. As experiences with using WfMSs accumulate, shortcomings of current systems become apparent. In this paper, we focus on practical issues that hinder WfMS users and that arise in the design and execution of workflows, and in access of web services. We present e-BioFlow, a workflow engine that demonstrates in which way a number of these problems can be solved. e-BioFlow offers an improved user interface, can deal with large data volumes, stores all provenance, and has a powerful provenance browser. e-BioFlow also offers the possibility to design and run workflows step by step, allowing its users an explorative research style.

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Assessing users mental models in designing complex systems

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMO

Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMO

Teaching Visual Design as a Holistic Enterprise

e-BioFlow: Improving Practical Use of Workflow Systems in Bioinformatics

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