Console gaming across generations: exploring intergenerational interactions in collocated console gaming

Voida, Amy; Greenberg, Saul

doi:10.1007/s10209-011-0232-1

Cited by 53 publications

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“…Similarly to [23], we found a role distinction between audience members and players. Far from being passive observers, though, audience members were active participants in the gaming sessions, having and enabling fun in a variety of ways.…”

Section: Paraplay and The Audiencesupporting

confidence: 54%

Paraplay: Exploring Playfulness Around Physical Console Gaming

Downs

Vetere

Howard

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract. We present the concept of paraplay: playful activities that take place within the context of an interactive game or other play activity, but outside the activity itself. By critically examining work related to gaming and play goals and motivations we argue that the concept of playfulness should have a stronger role in our understanding of gaming sessions, and particularly social gaming sessions. In order to further understand the role of playfulness in social gaming we conducted an empirical field study of physical console gaming. Six families with a total of 32 participants were provided with an Xbox 360 console, Kinect sensor, and three casual physical video games to play together for a period of approximately two weeks. Participants were instructed to record their social gaming sessions. We conducted video analysis on these recordings as well as interviews with many of the participants. We found numerous types and examples of playfulness within the gaming session even from those who were not actively participating in the game. Drawing on the results of this study we present a taxonomy of paraplay and discuss the ways that playfulness can be exhibited in a social play session. We show that participants in a game situation act within a wider context of playfulness, according to a variety of significant roles ranging from active player through to audience member. We explore these roles and their attributes to provide a rich account of paraplay and its importance in understanding playful activities broadly.

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Section: Paraplay and The Audiencesupporting

confidence: 54%

Paraplay: Exploring Playfulness Around Physical Console Gaming

Downs

Vetere

Howard

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…In terms of player roles, Voida and Greenberg [30] have identified that younger players are more pro-active in deciding the types of games played. Likewise, they suggest some passivity in older adult's interaction in allocating more gameplay time to younger players [30].…”

Section: Intergenerational Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…see 4]. In particular, Voida and Greenberg [30] report that digital games can be considered as a social bridge for cross-generational families who play them. Yet, despite a need to better understand how to design such games, there remains a lack of available research [1,5,29].…”

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The dynamics of younger and older adult's paired behavior when playing an interactive silhouette game

Rice

Tan

Ong

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we report on the findings of an acute trial in which we evaluate the design of a novel gesture-based game. 60 younger and older players, divided into three separate group-types: (i) Young-Young, (ii) Old-Old, and (iii) Young-Old, took part in the study. The primary aim of this work was to evaluate the communicative and cooperative behavior of same-age and mixed-age pairs, with secondary interests in their perceived ease-of-use of the game. A mixed-method approach was used, comprising of direct observations, a post-game questionnaire and paired interviews. Our results identified noticeable differences between the group-types, with the Young-Old showing more physical cooperation, as compared to the same-age groups. The work elaborates on how the young and old differ in expectations and perceived interaction, and concludes with some recommendations for future research.

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“…However, Kaplan et al (2013) highlighted that the intergenerational communication dynamic becomes multi-directional as older adults become more knowledgeable about technology and more comfortable sharing experiences and learning from and with younger generations. Voida and Greenberg (2012) examined the intergenerational gaming practices of four generations of console gamers at collocated environments. Their findings revealed that both young and adult gamers took on the teacher's role during intergenerational play; however, the group play in this study lasted a short time (an hour and 15 min, on average).…”

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

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Situated learning through intergenerational play between older adults and undergraduates

Zhang

Kaufman

Schell

et al. 2017

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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This study is grounded in a social-cultural framework that embeds learning in social activities, mediated by cultural tools and occurring through guided participation in the social practice of a particular community. It uses conversation analysis as a tool to examine the structures of the talk-in-interaction of naturally occurring conversations between 11 pairs of older adult (aged between 65 and 92) and undergraduates (aged between 18 and 25) during a 6-week social practice of intergenerational digital gameplay. The purpose is to demonstrate how older adults adapt to and make sense of collaborative gaming activities through guided participation. The features of minimum gap and overlap, even conversational inputs, and orientation to one another's turns indicate interactional connection between older adults and younger people. Adjacency pairs in the form of question-answer and self-initiated other-repairs are the situated use of social resources afforded by the intergenerational interaction. It is through these two main means of interaction that younger players offer immediate feedback and explanation to guide older adults to engage in the collaborative play and develop understanding of unfolding concepts and phenomena.

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Console gaming across generations: exploring intergenerational interactions in collocated console gaming

Cited by 53 publications

References 19 publications

Paraplay: Exploring Playfulness Around Physical Console Gaming

Paraplay: Exploring Playfulness Around Physical Console Gaming

The dynamics of younger and older adult's paired behavior when playing an interactive silhouette game

Situated learning through intergenerational play between older adults and undergraduates

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