Evaluating player experience for children’s outdoor pervasive games

Soute, Iac Iris; Bakker, Saskia; Magielse, Remco; Markopoulos, Panos

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2012.09.003

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“…We planned to first let the children play the games, while we both observed directly as well as gathered video material for later reviewing. Furthermore, we planned to apply GroupSorter [25] to gather feedback from the children; this entailed that after playing all the games, we first asked the children individually to rank the games from most fun to least fun. Subsequently, we formed small groups (4-5 children) and repeated the ranking, though now as a group effort.…”

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Rapid prototyping of outdoor games for children in an iterative design process

Soute

Lagerström

Markopoulos

2013

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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This paper reflects on the design process of games that are played by multiple players, involving high pace activity and embodied interaction. More specifically it argues that user testing with low fidelity prototypes, which is recommended in mainstream literature on methodology in the fields of human computer interaction and game design, is not appropriate when designing these kind of games. Designers should instead, as early as possible in the design process, experiment with technology and expose working prototypes to play test with children. A case study, in which we designed several games and tested in three iterations, is also presented. The games were designed for and tested with RaPIDO, a specially designed platform for prototyping mobile and interactive technology. Finally, we argue that our hypothesis regarding technology-rich prototyping is confirmed, since the feedback from the children concerned the realized interaction, and aspects of play and social interaction were experienced in real context, instead of an imagined way as a mockup would have allowed. General Terms Design KeywordsChildren, prototyping INTRODUCTIONMethodological research in the field of Interaction and Children (IDC) has focused mostly on how to involve children in design processes, and on ways that children can provide input to interaction design. Prominent examples of the former include participatory approaches to design [5], early design methods (e.g., KidReporter[2], Mission from Mars [4]), or methods for involving children in evaluating interactive products [16]. IDC as a research community has paid much less attention to prototyping tools and methods, and on how these impact the design process, which are core topics in methodological research for the parent discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).This paper considers the role of prototyping in the design of games for children that support embodied interaction, especially those that can be played outdoors by many children together. The paper summarizes related methodological research in the broader HCI field, discusses how game design literature approaches this topic, and points at some limitations of current design approaches when designing the type of games described above.The core argument made is that especially for games using innovative and non-standard embodied interactions, technology should be included from early stages of prototyping and paper prototyping can be a digression. The main contribution of this paper is twofold: first, we present a detailed case study of an iterative design process using hi-fi prototypes that involved children, and we reflect on the suitability of this process. Simultaneously, we explore the design space of appropriate technology to support the design of outdoor games for children.The remainder of this paper first discusses how methodology in the fields of HCI and Game Design largely favor formative user tests with paper or other low fidelity prototypes as a means to explore a design space. We argue why this may not be suitable for t...

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confidence: 99%

Rapid prototyping of outdoor games for children in an iterative design process

Soute

Lagerström

Markopoulos

2013

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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“…They merge digital gameplay with the physical world around a player's specific location 2 . Within these games, players can work together or play against each other, distributed or co-located in outdoor physical spaces in urban environments (Soute et al 2013;, interacting with the technologically enhanced environment around them (such as street furniture ). Other LBGs have been designed to increase neighbourhood awareness and place attachment, for example by providing information about specific locations and physical objects in a neighbourhood (Bergstrm et al 2014), such as objects with a mediaeval history (Huizenga et al 2009).…”

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Location-based challenges for playful neighbourhood exploration

Slingerland

Fonseca

Lukosch

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Behaviour & Information Technology

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Location-based activities can challenge citizens to explore their neighbourhood in new playful ways. This paper presents a classification of such playful activities based on the literature and experience gained (1) in co-creation sessions and (2) gameplay for neighbourhood exploration with citizens in the Hague. The location-based game designed for this purpose encouraged neighbourhood exploration and social interaction that went beyond the everyday normal. Results showed that citizens are specifically interested in activities that allow them to discover new information about, and places in, their neighbourhood when these are related to their own life. The results of this paper provide new knowledge on game design to inform designers on which type of interactions and activities foster neighbourhood exploration and social interaction.

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“…These games may involve one or more players, who may be distributed or co-located, and game play can take place in a wide variety of locations and contexts where one might expect such mobile devices to be used (Soute et al, 2013). Games have not received full attention of the engineering community's requirements.…”

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“…One consequence of the current wide adoption of mobile computing is the emergence of mobile and pervasive gaming (Soute et al, 2013) and it is necessary to obtain information about the pervasive game tools involved in educational and learning activities. This will enable us to draw some conclusions about the current state of these technologies in the field of education in terms of applications, design models and methodologies that support the implementation of pervasive games in learning and training activities.…”

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Using pervasive games as learning tools in educational contexts: a systematic review

Arango‐López

Collazos

Velas

et al. 2018

IJLT

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Technology is now a vital part of our society and with such a significant impact on the educational system, information and communication technologies (ICT) cannot be dissociated from the educational process (Ramos and de Andrade, 2016). While the implementation of digital technologies in society and more specifically among young people represents a challenge for teachers, it might also provide the opportunity to improve academic performance. In this context, pervasive games have established a new trend and present a new way for people to interact with each other in a real environment by means of virtual worlds and the elements they bring to the table. Students are therefore able to enjoy a learning process with fun graphics on their mobile devices, as well as stories or other features common to pervasive games. In this paper, we focus our attention on the results of pervasive learning games, results which we had previously obtained from a systematic literature review (Arango-López et al., 2017a), as well as from a review of specific literature to identify different research projects for improving the learning process.

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Evaluating player experience for children’s outdoor pervasive games

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Rapid prototyping of outdoor games for children in an iterative design process

Rapid prototyping of outdoor games for children in an iterative design process

Location-based challenges for playful neighbourhood exploration

Using pervasive games as learning tools in educational contexts: a systematic review

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