Exploring Enforced Collaborative Agreement in Gaming with Young People

This paper explores the concept of Enforced Collaborative Agreement (ECA) whereby players in a digital game must synchronously ‘agree’ on their controller inputs in order to interact. The focus of this paper is on the collaborative strategies young people (aged 14-16 years) adopted to reach decisions and control during gameplay. A two player collocated game supporting three different interaction methods has been studied. Video analysis of gameplay, along with post-gameplay interviews, surveys and gameplay interaction logs were used to gain insights into player behavior. The key contributions of the paper are an understanding of six key strategies players adopted to reach agreement within an ECA game, a set of more general issues related to the ECA gameplay, and an exploration of the impact of different interaction methods on gameplay experience. The work highlights the potential benefits of ECA in alleviating the often solitary nature of children’s computer use.

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Daniel Fitton

Chigbo Onyinyechukwu

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-10

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[0001]University of Central Lancashire

Preston, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.58

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] [1.] A.N. AntleA.F. WiseA. Hall et al Youtopia : A Collaborative , Tangible , Multi-touch , Sustainability Learning Activity Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2013 565 568

[2] [2.] B. BowmanN. ElmqvistT.J.Toward Jankun-Kelly Visualization for Games: Theory, Design Space, and Patterns IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 18 11 2012 1956 1968

[3] [3.] V. BraunV. Clarke Using thematic analysis in psychology Qualitative research in psychology 3 2 2006 77 101

[4] [4.] M.G. BreakwellS. HammondC. Fife-Schaw Research methods in psychology sage London 2000

[5] [5.] C. DaiuteB. Dalton Collaboration Between Children Learning to Write: Can Novices Be Masters? Cognition and Instruction 10 4 1993 281 333

[6] [6.] F. Erickson Definition and analysis of data from videotape: Some research procedures and their rationales Handbook of complementary methods in education research 2006 177 205

[7] [7.] C.J. Ferguson Blazing angels or resident evil? Can violent video games be a force for good Review of General Psychology 14 2 2010 6881

[8] [8.] M. Griffiths The educational benefits of videogames Videogames have great positive potential Education and Health 20 3 2002 47 51

[9] [9.] M. HortonJ.C. ReadE. MazzoneS. GavinD. Fitton School friendly participatory research activities with children CHI’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012 2099 2104

[10] [10.] J. HourcadeB. BedersonA. DruinG. Taxen KidPad: collaborative storytelling for children CHI’02 extended abstracts ... 2002 500 501

[11] [11.] K. InkpenW. Ho-ChingO. KuederleS. StaceyS. Garth This is fun! we’re all best friends and we're all playing: supporting children's synchronous collaboration 1999

[12] [12.] I. JamilK. O’HaraM. PerryA. KarnikS. Subramanian The effects of interaction techniques on talk patterns in collaborative peer learning around interactive tables Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’11 2011 3043 3052

[13] [13.] A. KanoM. HortonJ. Read Thumbs-up scale and frequency of use scale for use in self reporting of children’s computer experience Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer: Extending Boundaries 2010 699 702

[14] [14.] L. KerawallaD. PearceN. YuillR. LuckinA. Harris I’m keeping those there, are you?” The role of a new user interface paradigm-Separate Control of Shared Space (SCOSS)-in the collaborative decision-making process Computers & Education 50 1 2008 193 206

[15] [15.] P. LightT. FootC. ColbournI.M. Clelland Collaborative Interactions at the Microcomputer Keyboard Educational Psychology 7 1 1987 13 21

[16] [16.] L. Lipponen Exploring foundations for computer-supported collaborative learning 2002 72 81

[17] [17.] M. Margel Twitch Plays Pokemon : An Analysis of Social Dynamics in Crowdsourced Games 2014

[18] [18.] M.J. Mayo Video games: a route to large-scale STEM education Science New York, N.Y 323 5910 2009 79 82

[19] [19.] B.F. PianesiT.M. ZancanaroE.P. VenutiB.S.E. GalP.L. Weiss Collaborative Puzzle Game: a tabletop interactive game for fostering collaboration in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surface 2009 197 204

[20] [20.] J. ReadS. MacfarlaneC. Casey Endurability and Expectations :Measuring Children’s Fun 1999

[21] [21.] J.C. Read Validating the Fun Toolkit: an instrument for measuring children’s opinions of technology Cognition, Technology & Work 10 2 2007 119 128

[22] [22.] B. Rogoff Developing Understanding of the idea of Comunities of Learners Mind, Culture and Activity 1 4 1994 209 229

[23] [23.] J. RoschelleS. Teasley The construction of shared knowledge in collaborative problem solving Computer supported collaborative learning 1995 70 97

[24] [24.] D. StantonH. Neale The effects of multiple mice on children’s talk and interaction Journal of Computer Assisted Learning January 2003 229 238

[25] [25.] T. SusiM. JohannessonP. Backlund Serious Games - An Overview. Elearning 73 10 2007 28

[26] [26.] M. VillaltaI. GajardoM. NussbaumJ.J. Andreua. EcheverríaJ.L. Plass Design guidelines for Classroom Multiplayer Presential Games (CMPG) Computers and Education 57 3 2011 2039 2053

[27] [27.] P. WittenburgH. BrugmanA. RusselA. KlassmannH. Sloetjes ELAN : a Professional Framework for Multimodality Research 2006 1556 1559

[28] [28.] J.P. Zagal Collaborative games: Lessons learned from board games Simulation & Gaming 37 1 2006 24 40

[29] [29.] M. Zyda From visual simulation to virtual reality to games Computer 38 9 2005 25 32

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