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Evaluating Co-located Games as a Mediator for Children’s Collaborative Interaction

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Gökçe Elif Baykal,

Wolmet Barendregt,

Olof Torgersson,

Staffan BjorkAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '20: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

Article No.: 32, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420118

Published: 26 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate different types of collaborative interaction that children in special education may engage in when playing co-located collaborative games. The work used a qualitative approach for studying three different games (2 digital, 1 boardgame) to understand how they provide opportunities for collaborative interaction to children (aged 12 years) in special education. To analyse the gameplay sessions, we used the three levels of collaborative interaction from Activity Theory (AT) as a frame of reference, and we combined this model with gameplay design patterns (GDPs) to express and encode the differences in collaborative interaction between and within the playtests. An important finding is that children do indeed display different levels of collaborative interaction. Furthermore, our paper demonstrates how the three levels of collaborative interaction as defined in AT combined with GDPs can be used to analyse and describe collaborative gameplay actions between children in special education, and it provides insight in a number of gameplay design elements that may support the occurrence of higher levels of collaborative interaction.

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Eriksson EPetersen JBagge RKristensen JLervig MTorgersson OBaykal G(2022)Quadropong - Conditions for Mediating Collaborative Interaction in a Co-located Collaborative Digital Game using Multi-Display CompositionAdjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3547522.3547721(1-2)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3547522.3547721
Eriksson EBaykal GTorgersson OBjork S(2021)The CoCe Design SpaceProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462023(718-733)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462023

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