A Pilot Study of Four Cultural Touch-Screen Games

Wang, L.; Champion, Erik

doi:10.1145/2000756.2000764

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Wang, L.

Champion, Erik

Date

2011

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Conference Paper

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Wang, L. and Champion, E. 2011. A Pilot Study of Four Cultural Touch-Screen Games, in Cunningham, J. and Masoodian, M. and Rogers (ed), Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHINZ 2011), Jul 4-5 2011, pp. 57-64. Waikato, NZ: University of Waikato.

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CHINZ '11, 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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CHINZ '11 Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

DOI

10.1145/2000756.2000764

ISBN

978-1-4503-0676-8

School

School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18772

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Four simple single-player games (based on the "Four Arts" of traditional Chinese culture) have been designed in Flash for a touch-screen display. The aim is to allow players to experience a digital interactive recreation of traditional Chinese culture, in order to understand features of traditional Chinese culture and related philosophical concepts such as Daoism. To evaluate the effectiveness of the design, a pilot study was conducted with twelve participants, six were Chinese speaking and six were not. The pilot study suggest that there are differences between Chinese and non-Chinese users in perceived notions of authenticity and ease of use and it has provided us with ideas on how to improve both the games and the evaluation.