Paper Information
| Title | Tabletop gaming among strangers in public places: Forecasting who will play and why |
| Presenter(s) | Becky Scott, Shasha Zhang, Carrie Heeter and Chandan Sarkar |
| Session | Communities & social gaming |
| Time | Friday, October 22, 10:30a-11:30a |
| Location | Parlor A |
| Format | Paper Presentation |
| Description | Our research seeks to identify and understand likely users for "Coffee House Classics." These hypothetical electronic, tabletop gaming systems would offer slower-paced old-time games, such as checkers, chess, Scrabble, and Uno. Players would be people who frequent a public location and have time to devote to gameplay. Patrons could play with friends sitting at the same table, or use local WIFI to find playing partners in the same location. Strangers playing together could do so from their own table, communicating only via the game, or they could locate each other and move to the same table. |
| More | View extended abstract |