Exploring social interaction in co-located multiplayer games

Kappen, Dennis L.; Gregory, John; Stepchenko, Daniel; Wehbe, Rina R.; Nacke, Lennart E.

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468556

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“…This Social Experience (SX) of play can be defined as the relationship between player, game system and audience; a symbiotic relationship [14] between these domains affecting play in co-located spaces. We define game interaction in this context: between players and the game system, between players and the audience and between the audience and the game system.…”

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Mirza-Babaei

Johannsmeier

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Little is currently known about the influence of co-located player audiences on gameplay experience. Social player experiences are important to understand in co-located gaming scenarios, because these experiences relate to player performance. Player-audience relationships have been studied before, but prior research focused on player attributes and typology. In our study, we investigated the effect of different co-located audience types (silent, positive, negative) and no audience on player experience. For the study, we contribute a video game specifically developed for two-player, co-located gameplay and findings from questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that both -negative and positive audience activitydrove players to become more engaged in the video game. In contrast, silent audiences made players feel unnerved and less engaged in gameplay. Our paper is the first to study of the relevance of co-located audience influence on player experience, which is important for understanding the design of co-located games.

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“…Social gap between intergeneration can also be bridged and the well-being and sense of belonging in activities can be enhanced. 4…”

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“…Social gap between intergeneration can also be bridged and the well-being and sense of belonging in activities can be enhanced. 4 Therefore, virtual games from both elderly and descents are useful for presenting the horticultural activities needed for this research. Furthermore, how the intergenerational virtual games proceed can benefit from this example: TranseCare.…”

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“…2 However, along with the social isolation, instead of a short trip or taking a walk, elderly often just stay at home for a whole day and get bored. 3 Game, particularly a mixture of physical and virtual games, could be one of those technologies that elderly can use to bridge the gap between them and society, 4 and the game-like scenario has to be set at the living environment of elderly. Therefore, we need a method to connect behaviors of elderly in their daily routines and communicate with their family as a gaming process.…”

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HiGame: Improving elderly well-being through horticultural interaction

Chang

Datta

2016

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Family support is the key to the well-being problems of elderly. Unlike health problem, mental problem often depends on the social network of elderly. How to enhance elderly well-being problems will become how to increase the interaction between elderly and their family. Horticultural interaction proves to be an effective but smooth impact on improving well-being problems of elderly. By designing a horticultural interaction game for motivating or invoking the communication between elderly and their family members, the prototype is developed based on the framework of behavior setting and semi-fixed features. Three groups of games, physical games, virtual games, and spatial interaction games, are analyzed and 14 cases are studied and evaluated for the features required. Particularly, spatial interaction games with both physical and virtual games are brought into scope, and HiGame (Horticultural Interaction Game, hi game) is developed. Five scenarios using sensor network and mobile interface are unleashed and tested in an experiment with two sets of elderly family participants. HiGame has connection to both physical and virtual spaces for elderly and their family. Elderly interact with distant family through physical watering, weeding, and fertilizing. And distant family use virtual game to support elderly. The interaction process can be further enhanced with the following: (1) separating the tasks for elderly and family ends individually and then cooperating together might enforce the intergenerational interaction and reflection on cooperation in the gaming process; (2) the connection among each scenario can be further developed into a different process, such as competition of different members for helping the elderly to complete certain task might motivate the game experience further.

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“…competition or cooperation), the communication mechanism of the game (e.g. chat versus face-to-face communication), and the attendance of players or spectators [5]. One study [13] explores how cooperation and competition affect player experience by creating a game that allows for consistency between game modes to make the variable (social interaction) comparable.…”

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Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay

Wehbe

Nacke

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Analyzing the social context present in a gameplay environment and its effect on player experience can provide insights informing the design and social value of games. We investigate the influence of social condition (cooperative or competitive play with a human player versus computer-controlled character) on player experience. The study controlled for co-presence by ensuring that another individual attending to the same stimulus was present in all conditions. Although physiological measures were not significant, subjective measures of arousal and pleasure were significantly different under varying conditions.

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Exploring social interaction in co-located multiplayer games

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