Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming

David Gonçalves; André Rodrigues; Mike Richardson; Alexandra A de Sousa; Michael Proulx; Tiago    Guerreiro

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445494

Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming

David Gonçalves, André Rodrigues, Mike Richardson, Alexandra A de Sousa, Michael Proulx, Tiago Guerreiro

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Abstract

The landscape of digital games is segregated by player ability. For example, sighted players have a multitude of highly visual games at their disposal, while blind players may choose from a variety of audio games. Attempts at improving cross-ability access to any of those are often limited in the experience they provide, or disregard multiplayer experiences.We explore ability-based asymmetric roles as a design approach to create engaging and challenging mixed-ability play. Our team designed and developed two collaborative testbed games exploring asymmetric interdependent roles. In a remote study with 13 mixed-visual-ability pairs we assessed how roles afected perceptions of engagement, competence, and autonomy, using a mixed-methods approach. The games provided an engaging and challenging experience, in which diferences in visual ability were not limiting. Our results underline how experiences unequal by design can give rise to an equitable joint experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445494
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2021

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We kindly thank all of our participants. This work was supported by FCT through LASIGE Research Unit funding, ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and ref. UIDP/00408/2020, Portugal-UK Bilateral Research Fund (PARSUK BRF) through project “INPLAY: Designing games for inclusive play with the visually impaired and sighted", and the UKRI Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA 2.0; EP/T022523/1).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

Game accessibility
Inclusion
Mixed-ability
Social gaming
Visual impairment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Gonçalves, D., Rodrigues, A., Richardson, M., de Sousa, A. A., Proulx, M., & Guerreiro, T. (2021). Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (pp. 1-14). Article 114 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445494

Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming. / Gonçalves, David; Rodrigues, André; Richardson, Mike et al.
CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 1-14 114 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Gonçalves, D, Rodrigues, A, Richardson, M, de Sousa, AA, Proulx, M & Guerreiro, T 2021, Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths., 114, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445494

Gonçalves D, Rodrigues A, Richardson M, de Sousa AA, Proulx M, Guerreiro T. Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 1-14. 114. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Epub 2021 May 6. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445494

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