Truesight battle grid - Enhancing the game experience of tabletop role-playing through tangible data visualization

Bas Plijnaer; Daisy O'Neill; Eloisa Kompier; Günter Wallner; Regina Bernhaupt

doi:10.1145/3383668.3419931

Truesight battle grid - Enhancing the game experience of tabletop role-playing through tangible data visualization

Bas Plijnaer, Daisy O'Neill, Eloisa Kompier, Günter Wallner, Regina Bernhaupt

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Abstract

Data visualization is often used in computer gaming to provide feedback to players. However, little research has investigated its potential in hybrid physical/digital tabletop games, or for tabletop role-playing games. Building upon the benefits of tangible interfaces we introduce and report on the design of the Truesight Battle Grid, a modular, tangible battle grid for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Through visualizing game-play possibilities with lights, it aims to provide players with information about the fantasy world without being distracting. We report on a preliminary evaluation with two focus groups - showing that the tool was helpful and is able to contribute to an engaged audience - and reflect on possibilities for future work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	103-107
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375870
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419931
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2020
Event	7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020 - Virtual, Online, Canada Duration: 2 Nov 2020 → 4 Nov 2020

Conference

Conference	7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020
Country	Canada
City	Virtual, Online
Period	2/11/20 → 4/11/20

Keywords

Dungeons & dragons
Tabletop role-playing games
Tangible data visualization

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Plijnaer, B., O'Neill, D., Kompier, E., Wallner, G., & Bernhaupt, R. (2020). Truesight battle grid - Enhancing the game experience of tabletop role-playing through tangible data visualization. In CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 103-107). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419931

Plijnaer, Bas ; O'Neill, Daisy ; Kompier, Eloisa ; Wallner, Günter ; Bernhaupt, Regina. / Truesight battle grid - Enhancing the game experience of tabletop role-playing through tangible data visualization. CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. pp. 103-107

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CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 103-107.

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Plijnaer B, O'Neill D, Kompier E, Wallner G , Bernhaupt R. Truesight battle grid - Enhancing the game experience of tabletop role-playing through tangible data visualization. In CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2020. p. 103-107 https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419931