Making Interactive Board Games to Learn: Reflections on AnyBoard

Simone Mora (1) , Tomas Fagerbekk (1) , Ines Di Loreto (2) , Monica Divitini (1)

1 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]
2 Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs

In this paper we discuss the making of interactive board games as a learning activity. We do this by presenting AnyBoard, a platform that we are currently developing to support the design and implementation of board games. In our approach we do not use a game board virtualised on an interactive surface, but rather achieve interactivi-ty through technology-augmented game pieces. In this way, we aim at offering to game designers a broader design space and lower costs of the final product. In this paper we discuss the possible use of AnyBoard in the learning context

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Machine Learning [cs.LG]

Simone Mora, Tomas Fagerbekk, Ines Di Loreto, Monica Divitini. Making Interactive Board Games to Learn: Reflections on AnyBoard. Workshop of Making as a Pathway to Foster Joyful Engagement and Creativity in Learning (Make2Learn 2015) in conjunction with the International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2015), 2015, Trondheim, Norway. ⟨hal-02923885⟩