Critical thinking, empathy and problem solving using a modern board game

Rosa, Marlene Cristina Neves; Gordo, Sara; Sousa, Micael; Pocinho, Ricardo

doi:10.1145/3486011.3486526

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“…Modern board and card games are increasingly accompanied by educational labels, even therapeutic in some cases (to improve mental health outcomes), on their cognitive, emotional, and social benefits. However, few studies have been performed to confirm these statements (13,(55)(56)(57)(58). Usually, the first issue when researching or applying board games is how to select them.…”

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The Cognitive Processes Behind Commercialized Board Games for Intervening in Mental Health and Education: A Committee of Experts

Vita-Barrull

March-Llanes

Guzmán

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Games for Health Journal

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The use of modern board games has been growing last years in education, research, and mental health attendance. Often one professional selects games by his/her criteria depending on his/her objective with them. We evaluated the cognitive processes inherent to each modern board game to obtain a consensus of the cognitive profile of each. We explain how to choose the most suitable board games in future interventions.Fifteen education, mental health, and neuroscience research professionals with board games experience participated in an online assessment of 27 modern board games.Experts received a virtual neuroeducation formation and played the games selection for further analysis. Participants answered a Likert scale about 12 cognitive processes activated with each game. All modern board games obtained a high level of agreement (ICC>.75). Besides, most cognitive processes reached a high agreement, except for cognitive flexibility and problem-solving (moderate range; .5>ICC>.75). Differentiated cognitive profiles have been obtained for each game, some of which could work on more than one cognitive domain at a time. Finally, initial evidence about which board game mechanisms activates with cognitive domain was found. To conclude, this expert consensus methodology became a useful tool for assessing the cognitive profile behind modern board and card games. The results obtained may facilitate the choice of games to be used in future studies depending on the objective cognitive domain to be trained under a criterion based on the observations of a group of experts and not just the researcher's individual criteria.

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The Cognitive Processes Behind Commercialized Board Games for Intervening in Mental Health and Education: A Committee of Experts

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March-Llanes

Guzmán

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Games for Health Journal

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“…Serious games can be created or adapted from commercial games (Sousa, 2021; Rosa et al, 2021). Games that aim to deliver serious objectives (Dörner et al, 2016) demand serious evaluation.…”

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Your Move: An Open Access Dataset of Over 1500 Board Gamer’s Demographics, Preferences and Motivations

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Piovesan

Sousa

et al. 2023

Simulation & Gaming

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Intro This paper reports the demographics of a large sample of board gamers and their in-game motivations and preferences. Methods We report the specific preferences of 1603 board gamers (i.e. preferred platform, mechanics, style, theme, player count and game length) and player demographics, i.e. age, gender, education level as well as neurodivergence in this population. Participants were sampled via board game groups and game distributor mailing lists. Results Findings confirmed previous assumptions that board gamers are primarily middle-aged, university/college-educated, white males. We show that most gamers identify as mid-core/core with a preference for shorter, competitive Euro games. They tend to prefer in-person play with 3-4 players. However, a sizeable portion of the sample did not fit this description, showing a more complex picture. Discussion Results describe the population's demographics and detailed description of gamers preferred, mechanics, themes, components, preferences and motivations. An anonymised version of this data set is provided alongside this work for game designers and academics to explore further and cross-reference relationships between demographics and preferences/motivations. Considering that a quarter of the sample were neurodivergent (i.e. reported at least one mental health or neurodevelopmental condition) the dataset could also help clinicians who use board games as interventional tools. We hope this dataset (https://osf.io/tu8yq) will be helpful to board game designers, clinicians, educators, teachers, therapists and researchers interested in utilising board games to make informed choices about which games they use.

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For Soft Skills, Hard Games! – An Experiment Using Game-Based Methodologies in the Training of Health Students

Silva,

Vita-Barrull,

Sousa

et al. 2023

Serious Games

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Critical thinking, empathy and problem solving using a modern board game

Cited by 7 publications

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The Cognitive Processes Behind Commercialized Board Games for Intervening in Mental Health and Education: A Committee of Experts

The Cognitive Processes Behind Commercialized Board Games for Intervening in Mental Health and Education: A Committee of Experts

Your Move: An Open Access Dataset of Over 1500 Board Gamer’s Demographics, Preferences and Motivations

For Soft Skills, Hard Games! – An Experiment Using Game-Based Methodologies in the Training of Health Students

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