Protoyping & User Evaluation Session #1

During the workshop, we prototyped and obtained user feedback for 'Around the Table'. The game was set up with question cards and random objects which were improvised. The purpose of this process is to allow users to play the game and suggest improvements, discover what they like, enjoy, or even despise about the game. This feedback was then taken into consideration and was used to modify, tweak and improve the game.

SUMMARY OF USER FEEDBACK

User feedback has been summarised for each of the questions below because most users had universal opinions.

Overall; was the game enjoyable?

Yes, the game was enjoyable because it was quite challenging at first.

Would did you like most about the game?

Getting to know the deep details of each of the players.

Was there anything you did not like?

The fact that the pieces can be memorised and so it is not fun to play it more than once.

Would you suggest any improvements?

• Need to make pieces more difficult to guess.
• Need blindfolds.
• Players should be blindfolded entire game. Leave one player to say whether the pieces were guessed correctly.
• Keep pieces hidden so players can’t see them before they pick them out - possibly use an opaque box to hold the pieces in.
• Difficulty relating to professional dilemmas – make questions relate to this.
• Make things – objects
• Engravings – guess what’s written on something maybe?
• Objects with different textures (Stick things on objects to create different textures)
• More than touch can be used in this game? For example smell, and using fabrics

- Sherwin, Krista