2014
Alissa N. Antle, Jillian L. Warren, Aaron May, Min Fan, Alyssa F. Wise. 2014. Emergent Dialogue: Eliciting Values during Children's Collaboration with a Tabletop Game for Change Proceedings Article . In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '14 Association for Computing Machinery, Aarhus, Denmark, 37–46, .
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: children., Collaboration, digital tabletop, games for change, multitouch interaction, sustainability, tangible computing
@inproceedings{10.1145/2593968.2593971,
title = {Emergent Dialogue: Eliciting Values during Children's Collaboration with a Tabletop Game for Change},
author = {Alissa N. Antle and Jillian L. Warren and Aaron May and Min Fan and Alyssa F. Wise},
url = {https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1145/2593968.2593971},
doi = {10.1145/2593968.2593971},
isbn = {9781450322720},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children},
pages = {37–46},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Aarhus, Denmark},
series = {IDC '14},
abstract = {Games for Change (G4C) is a movement and community of practice dedicated to using digital games for social change. However, a common model of persuasion built into most G4C, called Information Deficit, assumes that supporting children to learn facts will result in behavior change around social issues. There is little evidence that this approach works. We propose a model of game play, called Emergent Dialogue, which encourages children to discuss their values during interaction with factual information in a G4C. We summarize a set of guidelines based on our Emergent Dialogue model and apply them to the design of Youtopia, a tangible, tabletop learning game about sustainability. Our goal was to create a game that provided opportunities for children to express and discuss their values around sustainable development tradeoffs during game play. We evaluate our design using video, survey and questionnaire data. Our results provide evidence that our model and design guidelines are effective for supporting valuebased dialogue during collaborative game play.},
keywords = {children., Collaboration, digital tabletop, games for change, multitouch interaction, sustainability, tangible computing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Games for Change (G4C) is a movement and community of practice dedicated to using digital games for social change. However, a common model of persuasion built into most G4C, called Information Deficit, assumes that supporting children to learn facts will result in behavior change around social issues. There is little evidence that this approach works. We propose a model of game play, called Emergent Dialogue, which encourages children to discuss their values during interaction with factual information in a G4C. We summarize a set of guidelines based on our Emergent Dialogue model and apply them to the design of Youtopia, a tangible, tabletop learning game about sustainability. Our goal was to create a game that provided opportunities for children to express and discuss their values around sustainable development tradeoffs during game play. We evaluate our design using video, survey and questionnaire data. Our results provide evidence that our model and design guidelines are effective for supporting valuebased dialogue during collaborative game play.