The Lux

Abstract

The Lux was a research project in collaboration with the GUII lab investigating the use of ARGs to measure complex psychological phenomena, such as resilience, in teams. An original ARG was developed for undergrads in UCSC, which was used for several studies. The ARG was iteratively developed to integrate into the campus and utilize its history as part of its narrative, and have players interact in teams on a Discord server, to solve puzzles together and in competition with other teams. The project received local news coverage.

People

Bjarke Larsen

Shweta Sisodiya

Publications

Under pressure: A multi-modal analysis of induced stressors in games for resilience
Habibi, R., Pfau, J., Maram, S.S., Li, J., Larsen, B., Xu, J., Kashani, A., Sisodiya, S., Holmes, J., Teng, Z. Carstensdottir, E., Seif El-Nasr, M.. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. 2023 April;38:1-10.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3582437.3582474

A Data-Driven Design of AR Alternate Reality Games to Measure Resilience
Habibi, R., Maram, S.S., Pfau, J., Wei, J., Sisodiya, S.K., Kashani, A., Carstensdottir, E., Seif El-Nasr, M.. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2022 June;13334:586-604.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_38