Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

A. Al Mahmud; O. Mubin; C.S. Shahid; J.B.O.S. Martens

doi:10.1145/1463160.1463205

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

A. Al Mahmud
, O. Mubin
, C.S. Shahid
, J.B.O.S. Martens

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	403-407
ISBN (Print)	978-1-59593-704-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	5th Nordic conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2008 - Lund, Sweden Duration: 20 Oct 2008 → 22 Oct 2008 Conference number: 5

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	358

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Conference	5th Nordic conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2008
Abbreviated title	NordiCHI 2008
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Lund
Period	20/10/08 → 22/10/08

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Al Mahmud, A., Mubin, O., Shahid, C. S., & Martens, J. B. O. S. (2008). Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. In NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008 (pp. 403-407). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 358). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205

Al Mahmud, A. ; Mubin, O. ; Shahid, C.S. et al. / Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008. pp. 403-407 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Al Mahmud, A, Mubin, O, Shahid, CS & Martens, JBOS 2008, Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. in NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 358, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 403-407, 5th Nordic conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2008, Lund, Sweden, 20/10/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. / Al Mahmud, A.; Mubin, O.; Shahid, C.S. et al.
NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008. p. 403-407 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 358).

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Al Mahmud A, Mubin O, Shahid CS, Martens JBOS. Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. In NordiCHI 2008 : Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2008. p. 403-407. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/1463160.1463205

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