TTRPG UX: requirements & beyond

Miriam Sturdee; Mafalda Gamboa; Michael Heron

doi:10.1145/3544549.3582737

TTRPG UX: requirements & beyond

Miriam Sturdee, Mafalda Gamboa, Michael Heron

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPG) allow the player to immerse themselves in a world where anything can happen - within the rules. You can become someone new, fight demons, play out exciting and speculative storylines, all with the help of your party. This ability to place yourself in the life of another person (or ethereal being) resonates with principles of User Experience Design (UX) where usability experts strive to understand the impact their application or interface might have on a hypothetical audience. This paper explores the parallels and potentials of TTRPG within the context of UX and Requirements, its characters, contexts and interactions. We propose creating playable UX worlds with the potential to provide deeper, more insightful output, and make recommendations for the addition of a TTRPG approach to User Experience processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended abstracts of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '23)
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Kaisa Väänänen, Tesh Goyal, Per Ola Kristensson, Anicia Peters
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582737
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

Conference

Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023
Abbreviated title	CHI EA 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

Keywords

Blades in the Dark
Dungeons and Dragons
Personas
Roleplaying games
TTRPG
UCD
User experience
UX

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Sturdee, M, Gamboa, M & Heron, M 2023, TTRPG UX: requirements & beyond. in A Schmidt, K Väänänen, T Goyal, PO Kristensson & A Peters (eds), Extended abstracts of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '23)., 426, ACM, New York, pp. 1-9, 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582737

TTRPG UX: requirements & beyond. / Sturdee, Miriam; Gamboa, Mafalda; Heron, Michael.
Extended abstracts of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '23). ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen; Tesh Goyal; Per Ola Kristensson; Anicia Peters. New York: ACM, 2023. p. 1-9 426.

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