"It was Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Candlestick": Using Artifacts to Create An Alternate Reality Game-The Unworkshop

TL;DR

This paper introduces an innovative unworkshop format that uses participant-created artifacts to facilitate deep connections and peer-learning through an engaging alternate reality game at academic conferences.

Contribution

It presents a novel interactive unworkshop approach that combines artifact creation and AR game elements to enhance collaboration and engagement among participants.

Findings

Enhanced participant engagement and collaboration.

Deepened peer connections and learning.

Successful integration of artifacts into AR gameplay.

Abstract

Workshops are used for academic social networking, but connections can be superficial and result in few enduring collaborations. This unworkshop offers a novel interactive format to create deep connections, peer- learning, and produces a technology-enhanced experience. Participants will generate interactive technological artifacts before the unworkshop, which will be used together and orchestrated at the unworkshop to engage all participants in an alternate reality game set in local places at the conference.