SIDES: A cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development

Anne Marie Piper; Eileen O'Brien; Meredith Ringel Morris; Terry Winograd

doi:10.1145/1180875.1180877

SIDES: A cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development

Anne Marie Piper^*, Eileen O'Brien, Meredith Ringel Morris, Terry Winograd

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Communication Studies

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Abstract

This paper presents a design case study of SIDES: Shared Interfaces to Develop Effective Social Skills. SIDES is a tool designed to help adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome practice effective group work skills using a four-player cooperative computer game that runs on tabletop technology. We present the design process and evaluation of SIDES conducted over six months with a middle school social group therapy class. Our findings indicate that cooperative tabletop computer games are a motivating and supportive tool for facilitating effective group work among our target population and reveal several design lessons to inform the development of similar systems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006
Pages	1-10
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180877
State	Published - Dec 1 2006
Event	20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006 - Banff, AB, Canada Duration: Nov 4 2006 → Nov 8 2006

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Other

Other	20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006
Country	Canada
City	Banff, AB
Period	11/4/06 → 11/8/06

Keywords

Asperger's syndrome
CSCW
Computer games
Social skills development
Tabletop groupware

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications

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Piper, A. M., O'Brien, E., Morris, M. R., & Winograd, T. (2006). SIDES: A cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development. In Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006 (pp. 1-10). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180877

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Piper, AM, O'Brien, E, Morris, MR & Winograd, T 2006, SIDES: A cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development. in Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, pp. 1-10, 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006, Banff, AB, Canada, 11/4/06. https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180877

SIDES : A cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development. / Piper, Anne Marie; O'Brien, Eileen; Morris, Meredith Ringel; Winograd, Terry.

Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2006. 2006. p. 1-10 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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