Tangible interaction in tabletop games

Bakker, Saskia; Vorstenbosch, Debby; Hoven, Elise van den; Hollemans, Gerard; Bergman, Tom

doi:10.1145/1255047.1255081

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“…To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee application aimed at elderly for sharing digital photographs [3]. Examples of tangible tabletop games not aimed at elderly users are Weathergods [4] and Tankwar [9]. The aim of the project that we report here is to unveil some of the potential in designing senior-friendly tabletop games, where seniors are in the age range of 65-75 years.…”

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Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Mahmud

Mubin

Shahid

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Building Bridges

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In this paper, we report on the design and evaluation of a tabletop game especially created for senior citizens. The game is intended to provide leisure and fun and is played with four players on an augmented tabletop. It evolved from existing games and rules that are popular and familiar amongst senior citizens. Several aspects that are part of the gaming experience, such as immersion, flow, affect and, challenge, were assessed experimentally. The gaming experience was measured relatively by subjectively comparing user reactions across two sessions, one using a conventional board game and another using a digital tabletop version of the same game. Our results indicate that senior citizens found the tabletop version of the game to be more immersive and absorbing. We also discuss some implications to tabletop game design that can be deduced from the qualitative feedback provided by our participants.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Mahmud

Mubin

Shahid

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Building Bridges

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“…In terms of objects and connectable objects Bakker et al and Coulton have studied the interactions of tangible objects and their connection to digital games. This closely resembles the types of physical objects traditionally found in board games, such as character pieces [2,4]. The majority of research in this area has studied the use of technology as a counterpart to play or a lens into a digital world using the board as a marker.…”

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confidence: 78%

Paper Gaming

Lochrie

Mills

Egglestone

et al. 2015

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

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Paper is ubiquitous. It forms a substantial part of our everyday activities and interactions; ranging from our take-away coffee cups -to wallpaper -to rail ticketsto board and card games. Imagine if you could connect paper to the Internet, interact and update it with additional data but without recourse to reprinting or using e-ink alternatives. This paper explores work examining conductive inks and web-connectivity of printed objects, which form part of an emergent subfield within the Internet of Things (IoT) and paper. Our research is starting to explore a range of media uses, such as interactive newspapers, books, beer mats and now gaming environments through prototype IoT device named EKKO; a clip that allows conductive ink frameworks to detect human touch interaction revealing rich media content through a mobile application as the 'second screen'.

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“…Several existing games incorporate tangible interaction and digital tabletops e.g., False Prophets (Mandryk, Maranan and Inkpen, 2002), Weathergods (Bakker et al, 2007), KnightMage (Magerkurth et al, 2004) and the STARS adaptation of Monopoly (Magerkurth et al, 2004). None of these games were developed for facilitating collaborative learning, which we intend to do in this paper, but show the advantage of using physical artifacts with a digital platform.…”

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“…The design was inspired by other tabletop games, namely SIDES , Weathergods (Bakker et al, 2007) and Storytable (Bauminger, Gal and Goren-Bar, 2007). Specifically, some game mechanics from SIDES were used; the confirmation after a turn and the involvement of personal objects.…”

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Designing interaction in digital tabletop games to support collaborative learning in children

Spermon

Schouten

Hoven

2014

IJLT

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According to Dillenbourg et al (1996) collaborative learning occurs when two or more people try to learn something together. This process consists of four successive stages, one of which concerns collaborative interactions. In this paper we present two studies that implemented two different ways of increasing the number of collaborative interactions. To increase the number of collaborative interactions in a game, the first study focused on degrees of collaboration (Kahn and Mentzer, 1996) and the second study focused on cooperative gestures , which were used in the third degree of the first study. In order to facilitate collaborative interactions and its properties (Dillenbourg, 1991), we decided to design two digital tabletop games with tangible interaction that both require collaboration to win. The evaluations in both studies, by means of the Wizard of Oz method, showed a significant increase in collaborative interactions. We also found that verbal and gestural interactions are a better measure criterion for tabletop games than how much people look at eachother.

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Tangible interaction in tabletop games

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

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Designing interaction in digital tabletop games to support collaborative learning in children

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