Facilitated Tabletop Games in a Mediated Environment

Facilitated Tabletop Games in a Mediated Environment

aan het Rot, H.N. (Student TU Delft)
Kortmann, Rens (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Verbraeck, A. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
de Vries, G. (TU Delft Organisation & Governance)
Kooreman, M. (Stichting MaySways)
de Bruin, B.J.E. (Stichting MaySways)

Dhar, Upinder (editor)
Dubey, Jigyasu (editor)
Dumblekar, Vinod (editor)
Meijer, Sebastiaan (editor)
Lukosch, Heide (editor)

2022

Tabletop games that require the aid of a human facilitator are typically designed for a physical environment. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures prevented people from gathering. Therefore, tabletop games were sometimes played and facilitated in a mediated environment using online communication tools instead. But this setting possibly deteriorates the players’ game experience. To understand the effect of playing facilitated tabletop games in a mediated environment we measured the player experience of the game Cue Kitchen in a mixed-method study comparing physical and mediated game sessions. Forty-four players played eleven game sessions, three in a physical environment and eight in a mediated environment. Of all seven dimensions of game experience measured, only one differed significantly between the two experimental conditions: players in a mediated environment became significantly more tired than players in a physical environment. The qualitative results explained why: players in a physical setting can wander off, while players in an online setting have to stay focused on their screen and, therefore, grow more tired. The research results suggest that facilitated tabletop games may be played in a mediated environment instead of a physical environment, without significant loss of player experience.

Tabletop games
Game experience
Mediated environment
Sense of presence
Zoom fatigue

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:009ec94d-74fb-4b61-9bbe-ab5de0339e58

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09959-5_3

Springer

2023-01-27

978-3-031-09958-8

Gaming, Simulation and Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities - 52nd International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2021, Revised Selected Papers

52nd Annual Conference of International Simulation and Gaming Association, 2021-09-06 → 2021-09-10, Indore, India

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1611-3349, 13219

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© 2022 H.N. aan het Rot, Rens Kortmann, A. Verbraeck, G. de Vries, M. Kooreman, B.J.E. de Bruin