Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 06, 2021 - June 08, 2021
In this study, we developed a tabletop game where a piece on a board is manipulated by inclining the board with four levers to navigate the piece to follow the predefined path. Our hypothesis is that communication may be enhanced by counterintuitive behavior of the piece, such as climbing up the slope that is against the laws of physics on the earth. To evaluate the effect of the counterintuitive behavior on the enhancement of the communication, we have conducted experiment where the pair of players played the game under two different conditions. The results of the five-point Likert scale questionnaire demonstrated that the counterintuitive behavior had positive effect on the freshness and interestingness of the game while it had no effect on the difficulty of the cooperation. However， it was confirmed that the verbal communication between the players increased 6.7 % in average which partially support our hypothesis.
