Whitby, Matthew Alexander, Iacovides, Ioanna orcid.org/0000-0001-9674-8440 and Deterding, Sebastian orcid.org/0000-0003-0033-2104 (2023) “Conversations with pigeons”:Capturing Players’ Lived Experience of Perspective Challenging Games. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 405. 833–855. ISSN 2573-0142
Abstract
Video games are increasingly designed to provoke reflection and challenge players’ perspectives. Yet we know little about how such perspective-challenging experiences come about in gameplay. In response, we used systematic self-observation diaries and micro-phenomenological interviews to capture players’ (n=15) lived experience of perspective challenges in purposely sampled games including Hatoful Boyfriend, The Stanley Parable, or Papers, Please. We found a sequence of trigger, reflection, and transformation constituting perspective-challenging experiences, matching Mezirow’s model of transformative learning. Most of these were game-related or ‘endo-game’, suggesting that medium self-reflection could be an overlooked part of everyday game reflection and appreciation. Reflections were accompanied by a wide range of emotions, including frequent epistemic emotions, and emotions could change drastically even during short gameplay experiences. Actual perspective change or transformation was rare. We construct a model of granular types of triggers, reflections, and transformations that can aid reflective game design.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the University’s Research Publications and Open Access policy. |
Keywords: | perspective,reflection,games,perspective challenge,lived experience |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2023 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 18:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3611051 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3611051 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202968 |
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