Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Abdullah Al Mahmud; Omar Mubin; Suleman Shahid; Jean-Bernard Martens

doi:10.1145/1463160.1463205

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens

Abdullah Al Mahmud, Omar Mubin, Suleman Shahid, Jean-Bernard Martens

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![CDATA[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 anaugmented 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	Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2008): Building Bridges, 20-22 October 2008, Lund, Sweden
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	403-406
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781595937049
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Duration: 20 Oct 2008 → …

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Conference	Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
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Al Mahmud, A., Mubin, O., Shahid, S., & Martens, J.-B. (2008). Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. In Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2008): Building Bridges, 20-22 October 2008, Lund, Sweden (pp. 403-406). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205

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Al Mahmud, A, Mubin, O, Shahid, S & Martens, J-B 2008, Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. in Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2008): Building Bridges, 20-22 October 2008, Lund, Sweden. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 403-406, Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 20/10/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463205

Designing and evaluating the tabletop game experience for senior citizens. / Al Mahmud, Abdullah; Mubin, Omar; Shahid, Suleman et al.
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2008): Building Bridges, 20-22 October 2008, Lund, Sweden. Association for Computing Machinery, 2008. p. 403-406.

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