Co-gnito: A Participatory Physicalization Game for Urban Mental Mapping


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Panagiotidou G., Görücü S., Nofal E., Akkar Ercan Z. M., Vande Moere A.

14th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, C and C 2022, Venice, İtalya, 20 - 23 Haziran 2022, ss.284-297 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1145/3527927.3532803
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Venice
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.284-297
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: collaboration, collaborative construction, making, mental mapping, participation, physicalization, serious games, storytelling, urban design, visualization activity
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2022 ACM.This study introduces Co-gnito, a participatory physicalization game that supports collaborative urban mental mapping through storytelling. Through Co-gnito we investigate gaming as a means to elicit subjective spatial experiences and to steer the synchronous construction of a physicalization that aligns and represents them. Co-gnito was evaluated during seven deployments by analyzing how 28 players mapped their spatial experiences of two university campuses. Our results indicate that storytelling as a gaming mechanic, guided and motivated the gradual addition of personal contributions towards a collective outcome, but its reward system did not nudge the mapping direction as expected. We also demonstrate how the shared construction process of a physicalization is influenced by how the data encoding scheme was negotiated, by the token physical affordances and by the game mechanics. We therefore believe that our core contributions, comprising of: 1) a working research prototype; 2) an augmentation of the physicalization pipeline towards collaborative settings; and 3) a set of reflective considerations, provide actionable knowledge on how to design participatory physicalizations in the future.