Exploring automation in digital tabletop board game

Wallace, James R.; Pape, Joseph A.; Chang, Yu-Ling; McClelland, Phillip; Graham, T. C. Nicholas; Scott, Stacey D.; Hancock, Mark

doi:10.1145/2141512.2141585

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“…Overall, groups had a high level of situation awareness, in contrast to results from a previous study of a digital version of Pandemic [42] and from our training condition, both of which offered no mechanism for players to explore past events. This finding suggests that the timelines were effective in providing relevant historical game information.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…study to rapidly prototype design concepts, and to enable lab-based studies with a complex task for which "experts" could be easily recruited. Moreover, Pandemic has been shown to elicit the out-of-the-loop automation problem [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Games allow for a more rapid, human-centred prototyping process, since it is easy to recruit subject matter experts of popular games and we can easily manipulate parameters, such as degree of difficulty. Previous work has shown that digital versions of the Pandemic game can elicit situation awareness deficiencies due to automation [42].Pandemic requires 3 to 4 players to engage in intense discussion on strategies and resource management (Figure 2, left). Players work as a team to save the world from epidemics and outbreaks of diseases.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Supporting Situation Awareness in Collaborative Tabletop Systems with Automation

Chang

Scott

Hancock

2014

Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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Human operators collaborating to complete complex tasks, such as a team of emergency response operators, need to maintain a high level of situation awareness to appropriately and quickly respond to critical changes. Even though automation can help manage complex tasks and rapidly update information, it may create confusion that negatively impacts operators' situation awareness, and result in suboptimal decisions. To improve situation awareness in colocated environments on digital tabletop computers, we developed an interactive event timeline that enables exploration of historical system events, using a collaborative digital board game as a case study. We conducted a user study to examine two factors, placement of timelines for multiple users and location of awareness feedback, to understand their impact on situation awareness. The study revealed that interaction with the timeline was correlated with improved situation awareness, and that displaying feedback both on the game board and timeline was the most preferred.

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Supporting Situation Awareness in Collaborative Tabletop Systems with Automation

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Scott

Hancock

2014

Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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“…Thus, realistic task behavior is likely to occur during the study, improving the validity of study results. Finally, previous research has shown similar, negative impacts of automation on situation awareness in digital tabletop board games consistent with automation research in other application areas [8].…”

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“…This can leave users unable to respond appropriately to critical system events. The problem of situation awareness has been observed in both traditional [2] and tabletop interfaces [8]. Tabletops both require and afford powerful solutions to this problem through their collaborative directlymanipulated nature.…”

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Improving awareness of automated actions using an interactive event timeline

Chang

Mengual

Parfett

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Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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Digital tabletops provide an opportunity for automating complex tasks in collaborative domains involving planning and decision-making, such as strategic simulation in command and control. However, when automation leads to modification of the system's state, users may fail to understand how or why the state has changed, resulting in lower situation awareness and incorrect or suboptimal decisions. We present the design of an interactive event timeline that aims to improve situation awareness in tabletop systems that use automation. Our timeline enables exploration and analysis of automated system actions in a collaborative environment. We discuss two factors in the design of the timeline: the ownership of the timeline in multi-user situations and the location of the detailed visual feedback resulting from interaction with the timeline. We use a collaborative digital tabletop board game to illustrate this design concept.

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Investigating device‐specific visual feedback for cross‐device transfer in table‐centric multisurface environments

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Goyal

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Concurrency and Computation

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Table-centric multisurface environments (T-MSEs) that combine small multitouch surfaces (eg, smartphones and tablets) with large interactive tabletops provide people with both personal and shared workspaces to support various independent and collective tasks during group activities. This paper reports on the third in a series of studies exploring how existing interaction methods for cross-device transfer, such as the Pick-and-Drop (P&D) method, can be adapted to table-centric multisurface environment settings. The study examined the use of device-specific visual feedback to improve users' awareness of transferred content during P&D transfer. The tabletop feedback utilized the existing Surface Ghosts P&D feedback approach (ie, "ghosted" versions of transferred content were displayed in real time under the user's hand). The tablet feedback consisted of a static "Tablet Bridge" feedback showing miniature versions of transferred content along the top edge of the tablet interface. The study found that providing both types of feedback significantly improved users' transfer awareness over providing Surface Ghosts feedback alone. It also revealed that the Tablet Bridge feedback helped compensate for technical and usability issues associated with the Surface Ghosts feedback design. Lessons learned from our combined series of cross-device transfer studies are reflected upon, and relevant design implications are discussed.

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Exploring automation in digital tabletop board game

Cited by 31 publications

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Supporting Situation Awareness in Collaborative Tabletop Systems with Automation

Supporting Situation Awareness in Collaborative Tabletop Systems with Automation

Improving awareness of automated actions using an interactive event timeline

Investigating device‐specific visual feedback for cross‐device transfer in table‐centric multisurface environments

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