AMELIO: evaluating the team-building potential of a mixed reality escape room game

HJG Warmelink; IS Mayer; J Weber; Bram Heijligers; M Haggis; E Peters; M Louwerse

AMELIO: evaluating the team-building potential of a mixed reality escape room game

HJG Warmelink, IS Mayer, J Weber, Bram Heijligers, M Haggis, E Peters, M Louwerse

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Abstract

The authors investigate the potential of Mixed Reality (MR) games for team building and assessment. The AMELIO game was designed for a highly immersive MR lab. The game is a multi-player team challenge based on the concept of an escape room, staged in a space colony emergency situation. An explorative empirical pre-post measurement study was carried out to establish whether playing AMELIO influences team cohesiveness. Ten teams of three played AMELIO and filled out pre- and post-game questionnaires with validated measurements of team cohesiveness and mediating factors related to team composition, game experience and team dynamics. The findings show a positive and significant increase in team cohesiveness, with stronger effects for teams with lower pre-game familiarity. In terms of game experience and team dynamics, audio aesthetics and empathy proved to be significant mediating factors. This AIDS game validation and improvement, and understanding and guiding the team building process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in play
Editors	B Schouten, P Markopoulos, Z Toups, P Cairns, T Bekker
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	111-123
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9781450351119
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	CHI Play '17 - Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 15 Oct 2017 → 18 Oct 2017

Conference

Conference	CHI Play '17
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	15/10/17 → 18/10/17

Keywords

mixed reality
virtual reality
team building
escape room
quasi-experiment
social learning and training
stereoscopic 3D
unity 3 D
Unity 3D
Escape room
Social learning and training
Stereoscopic 3D
Mixed reality
Virtual reality
Quasi-experiment
Team building

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Warmelink, HJG., Mayer, IS., Weber, J., Heijligers, B., Haggis, M., Peters, E., & Louwerse, M. (2017). AMELIO: evaluating the team-building potential of a mixed reality escape room game. In B. Schouten, P. Markopoulos, Z. Toups, P. Cairns, & T. Bekker (Eds.), CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in play (pp. 111-123). ACM. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3140000/3131436/p111-warmelink.pdf?ip=145.101.161.61&id=3131436&acc=OPENTOC&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E8AF5215FEFE1B25A&CFID=1001523457&CFTOKEN=15462498&__acm__=1509695365_3edb5b2a543e5c8796fbf015d91e4b2b

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Warmelink, HJG, Mayer, IS , Weber, J , Heijligers, B , Haggis, M, Peters, E & Louwerse, M 2017, AMELIO: evaluating the team-building potential of a mixed reality escape room game. in B Schouten, P Markopoulos, Z Toups, P Cairns & T Bekker (eds), CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in play. ACM, New York, pp. 111-123, CHI Play '17, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15/10/17. <http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3140000/3131436/p111-warmelink.pdf?ip=145.101.161.61&id=3131436&acc=OPENTOC&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E8AF5215FEFE1B25A&CFID=1001523457&CFTOKEN=15462498&__acm__=1509695365_3edb5b2a543e5c8796fbf015d91e4b2b>

AMELIO: evaluating the team-building potential of a mixed reality escape room game. / Warmelink, HJG; Mayer, IS ; Weber, J et al.
CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in play. ed. / B Schouten; P Markopoulos; Z Toups; P Cairns; T Bekker. New York: ACM, 2017. p. 111-123.

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