TTRPG UX: Requirements & Beyond
Paper in proceeding, 2023

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.

Dungeons and Dragons

Blades in the Dark

TTRPG

UX

UCD

personas

roleplaying games

user experience

Author

Miriam Amber Sturdee

University of St Andrews

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

University of Gothenburg

Michael Heron

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

University of Gothenburg

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

426
9781450394222 (ISBN)

2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Hamburg, Germany,

Subject Categories

Human Aspects of ICT

Computer Science

DOI

10.1145/3544549.3582737

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5/26/2023