Frame Analysis of Voice Interaction Gameplay

Allison, Fraser; Newn, Joshua; Smith, Wally; Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300623

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“…Our participants mentioned that they felt less in control when using the voice assistant. This is consistent with prior studies that have found voice interaction to be associated with a lower subjective sense of control in both smart-home interfaces [45] and digital games [2]. We propose three features to reduce this perceived lack of control.…”

Section: Developing Voice-based Crowdsourcing Platformssupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Several studies have compared voice input to manual input for the same task and report that voice input rates well on engagement, but poorly on usability and sense of control [2,45]. Due to a lack of typical user interaction signals like mouse clicks and scroll movements, measuring and evaluating user satisfaction on voice interfaces greatly differs from traditional screen based interfaces.…”

Section: Related Work Voice Interaction and Digital Voice Assistantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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"Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker" Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

Hettiachchi

Sarsenbayeva

Allison

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Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Inspired by the increasing prevalence of digital voice assistants, we demonstrate the feasibility of using voice interfaces to deploy and complete crowd tasks. We have developed Crowd Tasker, a novel system that delivers crowd tasks through a digital voice assistant. In a lab study, we validate our proof-ofconcept and show that crowd task performance through a voice assistant is comparable to that of a web interface for voicecompatible and voice-based crowd tasks for native English speakers. We also report on a field study where participants used our system in their homes. We find that crowdsourcing through voice can provide greater flexibility to crowd workers by allowing them to work in brief sessions, enabling multitasking, and reducing the time and effort required to initiate tasks. We conclude by proposing a set of design guidelines for the creation of crowd tasks for voice and the development of future voice-based crowdsourcing systems.

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Section: Developing Voice-based Crowdsourcing Platformssupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Related Work Voice Interaction and Digital Voice Assistantsmentioning

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"Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker" Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

Hettiachchi

Sarsenbayeva

Allison

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Goffman (1961) used games as an early example for frame analysis. Subsequently, frame analysis has been utilized in understanding the gameplay as social situation (Fine 1983), and in general to make sense of games and play (e.g., Allison et al 2019; Conway and Trevillian 2015; Mayer, Warmelink, and Zhou 2016; Mortensen 2011; Stenros 2010). However, frame analysis has been much less used to examine game design choices or games as media communicating certain framings.…”

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Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Nygren

Kankainen

Brunet

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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Background Biodiversity crisis requires researchers to reflect on tools and strategies to engage with different stakeholders. We propose that serious games can be designed to introduce stakeholders to a novel environmental policy tool and to communicate research on environmental issues. Our case is biodiversity offsetting (BDO), a novel policy tool aiming to reconcile nature conservation with other land uses. As any media, games offer certain framings of the issues they communicate about—some aspects are made more salient than others. However, frame analysis has not been widely used to analyze the design choices or the messages communicated by games. We analyze how these framings are designed into a game communicating about environmental issues. Aim To intervene in the emerging public discussion on BDO in Finland, we designed a land use board game and during the design process, played it with public and private stakeholders who would soon encounter and implement biodiversity offsetting policies in Finland. The aim of this article is to describe how our framings of BDO affected the design process and how those framings interacted with the design decisions we made. With our analysis, we want to contribute to the understanding of how framings and design choices interact in game design and how paying attention to framings is especially important for the design of SGs. Method We analyze how our framings of biodiversity offsetting and our design choices interact in game design. Our understanding of biodiversity offsetting guided our game design, but the design choices also contribute to the framing of the issue itself. Results Game design choices strongly frame the topic of the game and thus influence the function of a serious game. Thus, the framings of the topic should be considered carefully during the game design process, especially in the context of serious games.

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“…A more recent study shows that in-game voice commands are associated with a sense of taking on a character in the game's world. The researchers believe that voice interactions that are conflicting with the social world can impede the player's engagement with the in-game world[3].…”

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Smells Like Team Spirit

Zargham

Bonfert

Volkmar

et al. 2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Verbal communication is a central component in collaborative multiplayer gaming and creates a feeling of companionship among the players. In single-player games, this aspect is often missing. Advancements in speech recognition now open new potentials for voice-activated single-player experiences. In this work, we integrated voice interaction to a single-player virtual reality (VR) game. To create a sense of team spirit, we enabled players to talk to a multiplicity of agents using natural language. We hypothesize that conversing with only one agent cannot produce the same level of camaraderie. We conducted a preliminary qualitative user study (=10) to explore how players experience talking with the in-game characters in the single-agent and the multi-agent condition. Early results suggest that our participants prefer interacting with the group of interlocutors. They perceived the multi-agent condition as more entertaining and liked the feeling of being part of a team. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Natural language interfaces; Virtual reality; • Applied computing → Computer games.

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Frame Analysis of Voice Interaction Gameplay

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"Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker" Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

"Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker" Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Smells Like Team Spirit

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