Designing aesthetics for play(fulness)

Legaard, Jesper Falck

doi:10.35199/norddesign2020.44

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“…Through play, it is possible to separate from the real world, while still dealing with or creating an explanation of a (real) situation, which makes play a space that gives an opportunity for safe exploration of something that might else not have been conceived as safe, e.g., animals biting each other in play to learn about something that later in life might be a matter of life and dead (Karoff, 2013;Sutton-Smith, 1997) or, for the play probes, to open up to something that might be difficult to talk about for the participants, in a way that gives the participants control over how and what they choose to share, thus creating a safe space for expressions. Legaard (2020) who deals with aesthetics affording different types of play, such as the four types mentioned in the previous section, states that when involving in play forms within construction, if at one point the playful practitioner during construction-play has a certain imaginary space in mind, that they are building towards, the gap between the imaginary world and the real world starts diminishing. When that happens, there is a chance for a degree of what he calls »…investigative storytelling«: meaning that an exploration of what story the playful practitioner wants to tell, can emerge.…”

Section: From Probes To Play Probesmentioning

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Meaningful Participation – Motivating young people’s participation through play probes

Christiansen

2022

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This paper explores the use of playful triggers when doing research with young people 14-17 years old, with the aim of providing a meaningful and mutual outcome, where both participants and the researchers gains value, this is done through Play Probes. As there seem to be a challenge when doing research with young people (Duncan, Drew, Hodgson & Sawyer, 2009) and there is a general agreement that young people are going through a complex period in their life (Kjeldgaard & Askegaard, 2006; Amit, 2001; Simonsen, 2003), this paper presents a take on how to provide a safe space for expression, for young people, that through playful triggers in the probe activities can intrinsically motivate young people to participate (Hektner and Csikzentmihalyi, 1996). 54 play probes have been filled out by young people from a Danish public school, and based on this, there are indications that the play probes can evoke motivation for participation, while also providing information to the researcher.

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Section: From Probes To Play Probesmentioning

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“…When they have made their creation, they can fill out a small note stating different features about their creations, such as a name or title, if there are special features or powers etc. Thus, moving from construction-play over to fantasy-play (Legaard, 2020).…”

Section: From Probes To Play Probesmentioning

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Meaningful Participation – Motivating young people’s participation through play probes

Christiansen

2022

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“…A specific gamification technique that was found in this study to be potentially useful for both longterm and short-term engagement is creating a narrative by using app characters in a mental health context. Playfulness could also be utilized in generating this kind of engaging narration, as presented by Legaard (2020) who described different forms of aesthetics that could be used in this regard such as storytelling and creating specific personal characteristics for the app design, which could help the user engage with the intervention on a cognitive and emotional level.…”

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Gamification and Nudging Techniques for Improving User Engagement in Mental Health and Well-Being Apps

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In the last decades, mental health disorders have been a growing source of the global burden of disease. Thousands of mental health apps are available nowadays addressing this problem, but studies show that the effectiveness of these apps is jeopardized by the low user engagement.This study investigates the most potentially effective gamification and nudging techniques in design for improving engagement in mental health apps for young people, by carrying out app-reviews for top installed mental health apps on Google play store and connecting it with engagement data, in addition to conducting expert-interviews with professionals from gamification and design background.From the findings, techniques that participated in improving retention rates included using app character for creating app narrative and user interaction, in addition to adopting a non-forcible language. While to improve app daily duration of use, simplification nudge, and stating the recommended minutes of use found to be useful. Personalization and social interaction techniques were potentially effective for improving the frequency of app daily use. For the young age group, using juicy feedback and high-quality gamification were recommended

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“…This finding agrees with foundational research on conventional games that highlights the value of familiarity in making games appealing (DeKoven, 2013). Furthermore, the videogaming literature highlights six forms of playfulness that roboticists could also seek to evoke: embodied investigation, constructive investigation, investigative storytelling, constructive storytelling, embodied storytelling, and embodied construction (Legaard, 2020). Another motivating factor in video games is the aspect of challenge, which can be broken into four components: physical, analytical, socioemotional, and insight (Vahlo and Karhulahti, 2020).…”

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How should robots exercise with people? Robot-mediated exergames win with music, social analogues, and gameplay clarity

Fitter,

Mohan,

Preston

et al. 2024

Front. Robot. AI

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Introduction: The modern worldwide trend toward sedentary behavior comes with significant health risks. An accompanying wave of health technologies has tried to encourage physical activity, but these approaches often yield limited use and retention. Due to their unique ability to serve as both a health-promoting technology and a social peer, we propose robots as a game-changing solution for encouraging physical activity.Methods: This article analyzes the eight exergames we previously created for the Rethink Baxter Research Robot in terms of four key components that are grounded in the video-game literature: repetition, pattern matching, music, and social design. We use these four game facets to assess gameplay data from 40 adult users who each experienced the games in balanced random order.Results: In agreement with prior research, our results show that relevant musical cultural references, recognizable social analogues, and gameplay clarity are good strategies for taking an otherwise highly repetitive physical activity and making it engaging and popular among users.Discussion: Others who study socially assistive robots and rehabilitation robotics can benefit from this work by considering the presented design attributes to generate future hypotheses and by using our eight open-source games to pursue follow-up work on social-physical exercise with robots.

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Designing aesthetics for play(fulness)

Cited by 3 publications

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Meaningful Participation – Motivating young people’s participation through play probes

Meaningful Participation – Motivating young people’s participation through play probes

Gamification and Nudging Techniques for Improving User Engagement in Mental Health and Well-Being Apps

How should robots exercise with people? Robot-mediated exergames win with music, social analogues, and gameplay clarity

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