Game-based HCI Methods

Slegers, Karin; Maurer, Bernhard; Bleumers, Lizzy; Krischkowsky, Alina; Duysburgh, Pieter; Blythe, Mark

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“…While there is a large body of research on the user experience of digital games, research endeavors that specifically paid attention to the user experience of boardgames is more sparse. Besides research on how (board)games could be used in research and design [24][25][26], mainly new technological advances have been explored, e.g., new devices and tools to augment physical boardgames [18,27]. Other research has also looked into the requirements and design aspects of augmented tabletop games [28] as well as into the different strategies of adaptation of digital and non-digital instantiation of commercial boardgames [29].…”

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Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Maurer

Fuchsberger

2019

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Conventional digital and remote forms of play lack the physicality associated with analog play. Research on the materiality of boardgames has highlighted the inherent material aspects to this analog form of play and how these are relevant for the design of digital play. In this work, we analyze the inherent material qualities and related experiences of boardgames, and speculate how these might shift in remote manifestations. Based on that, we depict three lenses of designing for remote tangible play: physicality, agency, and time. These lenses present leverage points for future designs and illustrate how the digital and the physical can complement each other following alternative notions of hybrid digital–physical play. Based on that, we illustrate the related design space and discuss how boardgame qualities can be translated to the remote space, as well as how their characteristics might change. Thereby, we shed light on related design challenges and reflect on how designing for shared physicality can enrich dislocated play by applying these lenses.

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Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

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Fuchsberger

2019

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“…We have seen a surge in the use of games to collect data for research questions outside games research itself, variously called gamifying research (Deterding et al, 2015) or game-based methods (Slegers et al, 2016). For instance, economists have long had to wrestle with the fact that they couldn’t run true macro-economic experiments – neither would governments let them, nor could they really set up and compare two identical real-life economies.…”

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“…Finding close correlations between people’s in-game performance and out-of-game traits like fluid intelligence (Kokkinakis, Cowling, Drachen, & Wade, 2017), they suggest that games can be used as alternative psychometric instruments. Qualitative researchers in human-computer interaction (HCI) and other fields are increasingly using board and card games to structure user and design research processes (Hannula & Harviainen, 2016; Slegers et al, 2016). So-called citizen science games are enlisting thousands of volunteer players to crowd-source scientific data collection and processing tasks like recording pollution levels, classifying images of galaxies, or identifying protein foldings (Cooper, 2015).…”

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Validity Threats in Quantitative Data Collection With Games: A Narrative Survey

Gundry

Deterding

2018

Simulation & Gaming

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Background. Games are increasingly used to collect scientific data. Some suggest that game features like high cognitive load may limit the inferences we can draw from such data, yet no systematic overview exists of potential validity threats of game-based methods. Aim. We present a narrative survey of documented and potential threats to validity in using games for quantitative data collection. Method. We combined an unsystematic bottom-up literature review with a systematic top-down application of standard validity threat typologies to games to arrive at a systematisation of game-characteristic validity threats. Results. We identify three game characteristics that potentially impact validity: Games are complex systems, impeding the predictable control and isolation of treatments. They are rich in unwanted variance and diversity. And their social framing can differ from and interact with the framing of research studies or non-game situations they are supposed to represent. The diversity of gamers and their differences to general populations bring further complications. Discussion and Conclusions. The wealth of potential validity threats in game-based research is met by a dearth of systematic methodological studies, leading us to outline several future research directions.

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Intrinsic elicitation

Gundry

Deterding

2018

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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Applied games are increasingly used to collect human subject data such as people's performance or attitudes. Games aford a motive for data provision that poses a validity threat at the same time: as players enjoy winning the game, they are motivated to provide dishonest data if this holds a strategic in-game advantage. Current work on data collection game design doesn't address this issue. We therefore propose a theoretical model of why people provide certain data in games, the Rational Game User Model. We derive a design approach for human subject data collection games that we call Intrinsic Elicitation: data collection should be integrated into the game's mechanics such that honest responding is the necessary, strategically optimal, and least efortful way to pursue the game's goal. We illustrate the value of our approach with a sample analysis of the data collection game Urbanology.

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Game-based HCI Methods

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Dislocated Boardgames: Design Potentials for Remote Tangible Play

Validity Threats in Quantitative Data Collection With Games: A Narrative Survey

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