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

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Panagiotidou, Georgia
Görücü, Sinem
Nofal, Eslam
Akkar Ercan, Zübeyde Müge
Vande Moere, Andrew
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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.
collaboration, collaborative construction, making, mental mapping, participation, physicalization, serious games, storytelling, urban design, visualization activity
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98509
14th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, C and C 2022
Department of City and Regional Planning, Conference / Seminar

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G. Panagiotidou, S. Görücü, E. Nofal, Z. M. Akkar Ercan, and A. Vande Moere, “Co-gnito: A Participatory Physicalization Game for Urban Mental Mapping,” presented at the 14th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, C and C 2022, Venice, İtalya, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98509.
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