Designing for negative affect and critical reflection

Halbert, Helen; Nathan, Lisa P.

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581241

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“…Finally, the use of post-play email questions was vital for establishing how the games resonated with players. We argue these methods will help designers and evaluators who wish to move towards serious experiences that aim to promote reflection as part of a transformative learning process [10].…”

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Moving Beyond Fun

Iacovides

Cox

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Games are normally considered to be "fun", though recently there is growing interest in how gameplay can promote empathy and encourage reflection through "serious experience". However, when looking beyond enjoyment, it is not clear how to actually evaluate serious experience. We present an evaluation of four games that were submitted to a student game design competition; the competition challenged teams to design a game that inspired curiosity around human error and blame culture within the context of healthcare. The entries were judged by a panel of six experts and subjected to a round of play testing by twelve participants. Methods included gameplay observation, questionnaires, post-play interviews and follow-up email questions. We discuss the utility of these methods, with particular emphasis on how they enabled a consideration of the immediate and longer term impact of serious experience on players.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving Beyond Fun

Iacovides

Cox

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Specifically, we draw the reader's attention to Table 1, which is linked to our review of relevant literature. We used the table to first hypothesize whether we would find evidence of tool use supporting aspects of critical reflection in responses to the scenarios [20]. We returned to the table throughout our analysis to help articulate disconnects between what we expected and what emerged from the interactions.…”

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Designing for Discomfort

Halbert

Nathan

2015

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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A focus of human-computer interaction work and a central principle of user experience is that design should avoid discomfort and aim to craft positive experiences for individuals. However, for contexts in which an uncomfortable reaction is intended, instrumental, or indeed inevitable, we recognize that it is inappropriate to design for a positive or "feel good" experience. Herein we describe an investigation into the use of interactive technologies to support transformative learning, a process through which individuals engage with feelings of discomfort. The project is grounded by work with graduate students enrolled in a course that employed decolonizing pedagogies. Throughout the course students responded to uncomfortable, problematic scenarios through interactive tools. We present our analysis of students' learning experiences, their interactions with technologies and their reflections on the effectiveness of these engagements in terms of supporting opportunities for critical reflection, a crucial stage of the transformative learning process.

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“…Discomfort has been deployed successfully in the design of digital games [57], exergames [26], and also about designing interactions with art objects [51]. Following HCI's lead of engaging critically with the diversity of human experience, discomfort has also been used to engage societal systematic and intergenerational tensions with transformative learning [59,60] or to reflect on the methods we use [66].…”

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Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

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Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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As we engaged in designing digital interventions for intercultural dialogues around public cultural heritage sites, we saw an opportunity to surface multiple interpretations and points of view of history and shine a critical lens on current societal issues. To do so, we present the results of a collaborative auto-ethnography of alternative tours accompanied by intercultural guides, to explore sensory and embodied engagements with cultural heritage sites in a southern European capital. By focusing on the differences in how we experienced the heritage sites, we analyse the duality of discomfort, a common concept in HCI, in that it can both be deployed as a resource for designing systems that can transform people's understanding of history or it can be a hindrance for engagement, having an unequal effect on individuals. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Field studies; • Applied computing → Arts and humanities.

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Designing for negative affect and critical reflection

Cited by 6 publications

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Moving Beyond Fun

Moving Beyond Fun

Designing for Discomfort

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

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