Beating the City: Three Inspirational Design Patterns to Promote Social Play Through Aligning Rhythms

Mitchell, Robb; Olsson, Thomas

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“…Thus they aimed most of their constructive criticisms towards addressing the non-physical risks of new encounters in such contexts. Like our other inspirational patterns [42,43,44], the candidate patterns presented in this paper all feature three diverse design examples. Some of our other patterns are exemplified by purely physical designs, whereas we chose to present here five candidate patterns that are illustrated by at least one design involving also digital technology.…”

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“…The examples for each inspirational pattern are deliberately varied to enrich discussion around the abstractions in that some examples are more practical and clear exemplifications of a pattern, while others are more extreme designs that convey an aspect of the abstraction. Some of these patterns have been grouped into themes concerned with filters [43], proximity [42] and rhythm [44]. Here we discuss a further five unpublished, candidate patterns (figure 1) that share themes around signaling social intentions and identifying impediments to encounters developing.…”

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Facilitating the First Move

Mitchell

Olsson

2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Transforming Communities

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Actualizing positive social encounters remains both a key ends and means in many activities to foster a sense of community. Initiating encounters between strangers typically requires facilitative activities or artefacts, such as icebreakers or tickets-to-talk. However, there is little understanding of which designs are effective and why, and the broad design space remains largely underexplored. We address this challenge by presenting five candidates for inspirational design patterns on signaling social intentions and identifying impediments that deter commencement of encounters. The principles result from an extensive review of design cases and public art installations. Through focus groups and expert interviews, we assessed the perceived applicability and social acceptance of the proposed patterns. Three new design principles relating to the risks of initiating an encounter emerged through analyzing participant responses. These articulations of possible approaches and pitfalls for increasing conviviality may broaden the repertoire of, and support discussion between designers and others concerned with collocated social interaction. CCS CONCEPTSHuman-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing → Collaborative and social computing devices

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Section: Candidate Inspirational Patterns From a Design Space Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating the First Move

Mitchell

Olsson

2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Transforming Communities

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“…• Interactive experiences (Benford & Giannachi, 2008;Mitchell & Olsson, 2018;Wouters et al, 2016) • Playful experiences (Arrasvuori et al, 2011;Lucero & Arrasvuori, 2013 • Mixed reality experiences and games (Hinske et al, 2007;Wetzel et al, 2017) • Pervasive games and experiences (Arango-López et al, 2019Benford et al, 2005;Guo et al, 2010;Hinske et al, 2007;Jegers, 2007Jegers, , 2009Magerkurth et al, 2005;Montola, 2005;Nieuwdorp, 2007;Walther, 2005Walther, , 2011Walz & Ballagas, 2007) • Urban games and experiences (Mitchell & Olsson, 2018;Wouters et al, 2016) • Location-based/location-aware games and experiences (Broll & Benford, 2005;Maia et al, 2017;Neustaedter et al, 2013;Walz & Ballagas, 2007) • Ubiquitous games (Chalmers et al, 2005;McGonigal, 2006) • Alternate Reality Experiences (Gutierrez et al, 2011;Hansen et al, 2013;Kourouthanassis et al, 2015) • Shared interactive narratives (Benford & Giannachi, 2008) • Augmented reality experiences (Gutierrez et al, 2011;Kourouthanassis et al, 2015) Walther collects a number of these under the broader genre of pervasive games: incorporating mobile games, location-based games, ubiquitous games, virtual reality games & augmented reality games where each shares the key characteristics of "(1) the explicitness of computational tasks; and (2) the overall importance of physical space" (2005, p. 4). On the other hand, others bring pervasive games and experiences under the umbrella of mixed reality experiences (Hinske et al, 2007;…”

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“…Unpacking qualities of the experience specifically considers the internal qualities of an experience regarding its interaction with audience and location, and how these can be generated in interaction. For instance, Mitchell & Olsson (2018) offer design patterns to facilitate and encourage play between strangers in public places. Others consider how to leverage the transition of players between bystander, participant actor roles (Wouters et al, 2016); Walz & Ballagas (2007) provide a series of "pervasive persuasive tactics (PPT)"; understanding how participants can traverse narrative as they enter and leave the experience over time with Temporal Trajectories (Benford & Giannachi, 2008); designing to enhance player engagement and enjoyment using the Pervasive GameFlow model (Jegers, 2009).…”

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Design Guidance for Location-based Play: a review of research frameworks

Macdonald¹,

Matthews²,

Viller³

2020

Proceedings of DRS

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How to best make use of design research contributions in a domain to distil the guidance they offer for design students? We outline a typology of design guidance for location-based interactive experiences, compiled from a review of existing design tools, research frameworks, and empirical studies that cited an intention to support the understanding and design of location-based play. Motivated by our reflections on teaching courses that focus on non-traditional, novel interaction methods, we sought to extract value from design tools knowing how useful they can be to students working in unfamiliar genres. Design tools fell across two broad intents: facilitating generation and supporting understanding. Guidance within these is further characterised as establishing benchmarks, generating and developing ideas, alternative considerations, design documentation, structural elements and qualities of experience. Less visible was guidance for the process of design, for translating design into development, and for how designers might respond to the advice.

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“…Firstly, the impact of distances between people in relation to the likelihood, ease and comfort of initiating interactions and how this could be assuaged through designs that enable manipulations of interpersonal proximity [39]. Secondly, how the absence of an excuse or reason to commence interacting might be addressed through designs that created moments of interdependency and shared rhythms between people [40]. And thirdly, how many participants felt potentially vulnerable in situations where their own visibility and physical accessibility to others was not limited.…”

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Barriers for Bridging Interpersonal Gaps

Mitchell

Olsson

2017

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Positive face-to-face social encounters between strangers can strengthen the sense of community in modern urban environments. However, it is not always easy to initiate friendly encounters due to various inhibiting social norms. We present three inspirational design patterns for reducing inhibitions to interact with unfamiliar others. These abstractions are based on a broad design space review of concepts, encompassing examples across a range of scales, fields, media and forms. Each inspirational pattern is formulated as a response to a different challenge to initiating social interaction but all share an underlying similarity in offering varieties of barriers and filters that paradoxically also separate people. The patterns are "Closer Through Not Seeing"; "Closer Through Not Touching"; and "Minimize Encounter Duration". We believe these patterns can support designers, in understanding, articulating, and generating approaches to creating embodied interventions and systems that enable unacquainted people to interact.

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Beating the City: Three Inspirational Design Patterns to Promote Social Play Through Aligning Rhythms

Cited by 4 publications

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Facilitating the First Move

Facilitating the First Move

Design Guidance for Location-based Play: a review of research frameworks

Barriers for Bridging Interpersonal Gaps

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