Be Active! Participatory Design of Accessible Movement-Based Games

Regal, Georg; Sellitsch, David; Kriglstein, Simone; Kollienz, Simon; Tscheligi, Manfred

doi:10.1145/3374920.3374953

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“…Others have found that tabletop games can aid parents in teaching their children Braille [34]. Regal et al 's [73] work presented a different approach of novel accessible game creation using a game-agnostic approach; they discussed the potential for tabletop game creation toolkits to aid children with visual impairments create their own movement-based games.…”

Section: Tabletop Gaming Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Tabletop Games Accessibility: Exploring Board and Card Gaming Experiences of People who are Blind and Low Vision

Bolesnikov

Kang

Girouard

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Gaming accessibility research for blind or low vision (BLV) communities largely focuses on digital games. There is a need for designers to understand BLV's experience with tabletop games that involve the player's physical interaction. In this study, we investigate BLV individuals' experience with the accessibility of tabletop games. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 BLV participants and found four themes that uncovered participants' tabletop gaming experiences: (1) properties of inaccessible games, (2) outcomes of inaccessible games, (3) properties of accessible games, and (4) outcomes of accessible games. Our findings demonstrate a richness and variety in BLV individuals' tabletop gaming experiences. By providing discussions on the state of tabletop game interactivity and design recommendations, our work assists the creation of accessible tangible games that make use of digital information and physical forms by affording designers the opportunity to understand how inaccessible interactions in tabletop games affect BLV populations. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility; Accessibility; Empirical studies in accessibility; Accessibility design and evaluation methods.

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Section: Tabletop Gaming Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Tabletop Games Accessibility: Exploring Board and Card Gaming Experiences of People who are Blind and Low Vision

Bolesnikov

Kang

Girouard

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…Some considered participatory design as the overall research area and co-design as the method [ 56 , 60 , 77 , 82 ]. Others positioned the 2 as separate methods [ 62 , 66 ], while others used terms interchangeably [ 75 , 85 ]. The most common definition of “participatory design” was to “involve end users in the design process” [ 45 , 48 , 68 , 72 , 86 ], which some interpreted strongly because end users fully and equally participated throughout the whole design and development process [ 68 , 70 ], while others read it weakly as “invit[ing] users to contribute ideas” [ 71 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2 studies, CYP were only involved as users, and 1 study involved them only as testers. Finally, it is worth noting that 2 studies explicitly adopted Druin [ 39 ] taxonomy and ensured the involvement of CYP in each of the 4 roles [ 43 , 75 ].…”

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Children and Young People’s Involvement in Designing Applied Games: Scoping Review

Saiger¹,

Deterding²,

Gega³

2023

JMIR Serious Games

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Background User involvement is widely accepted as key for designing effective applied games for health. This especially holds true for children and young people as target audiences, whose abilities, needs, and preferences can diverge substantially from those of adult designers and players. Nevertheless, there is little shared knowledge about how concretely children and young people have been involved in the design of applied games, let alone consensus guidance on how to do so effectively. Objective The aim of this scoping review was to describe which user involvement methods have been used in the design of applied games with children and young people, how these methods were implemented, and in what roles children and young people were involved as well as what factors affected their involvement. Methods We conducted a systematic literature search and selection across the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Web of Science databases using State of the Art through Systematic Review software for screening, selection, and data extraction. We then conducted a qualitative content analysis on the extracted data using NVivo. Results We retrieved 1085 records, of which 47 (4.33%) met the eligibility criteria. The chief involvement methods were participatory design (20/47, 43%) and co-design (16/47, 37%), spanning a wide range of 45 concrete activities with paper prototyping, group discussions, and playtesting being the most frequent. In only half of the studies (24/47, 51%), children and young people participated as true design partners. Our qualitative content analysis suggested 5 factors that affect their successful involvement: comprehension, cohesion, confidence, accessibility, and time constraints. Conclusions Co-design, participatory design, and similar high-level labels that are currently used in the field gloss over very uneven degrees of participation in design and a wide variety of implementations that greatly affect actual user involvement. This field would benefit from more careful consideration and documentation of the reason of user involvement. Future research should explore concrete activities and configurations that can address the common challenges of involving children and young people, such as comprehension, cohesion, confidence, and accessibility.

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“…There is a noticeable uptick in design development workshops reported within TEI conference papers in the last five years. It is possible to see an increasing number of research projects at TEI that use co-design or co-creation methods [38,39,50,62,65,67,74,79,85,[90][91][92][93][94], which may be the reason for the increasing presence of workshops over the years. The increase is minor for evaluation workshops, though it appears that workshops have been consistently used for evaluation over the last 15 years.…”

Section: Trends In Workhop Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Workshops in TEI: Development, Evaluation, Exploration, and Implementation

Chen

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Workshops are frequently used in human-computer interaction research, in a diverse range of research projects. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has made this research activity difficult to conduct since they often involve group work, physical interaction with tangibles and/or bodily activity. Motivated by this, the authors conducted a review of papers from the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) to develop a better understanding of workshops as a research method in TEI. The meta-review led to the development of a preliminary classification for workshops in research. Four categories of workshops were identified: Design development, Evaluation, Exploration, and Implementation. This work is intended to spark discussion and further research around the value and the challenges of conducting research workshops. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI design and evaluation methods.

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Be Active! Participatory Design of Accessible Movement-Based Games

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding Tabletop Games Accessibility: Exploring Board and Card Gaming Experiences of People who are Blind and Low Vision

Understanding Tabletop Games Accessibility: Exploring Board and Card Gaming Experiences of People who are Blind and Low Vision

Children and Young People’s Involvement in Designing Applied Games: Scoping Review

Workshops in TEI: Development, Evaluation, Exploration, and Implementation

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