Cultural Game Jams with Youth: A Multiple-Site Case Study

Eva Eriksson; Conceição e Costa Costa; Maria Goncalves; Ines Nunes; Maarten Groen; Sabine Niederer; Kim Holflod; Rikke Toft Nørgård

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In this paper, we present a multiple-site case study to illustrate the similarities and differences in cultural game jam design with youth in situated research contexts. The aim is to provide the reader with an insight into the problem space, jam design, outcomes and opportunities of a set of linked, yet individual, studies from several different contexts and countries. The cases provide a platform to think about how game jam studies might be collectively reported and evaluated even when they are carried out in different ways. The contribution is an illustration of differentiated replication in multiple cultural game jam studies with youth in different countries. The reflections on replication and differentiation is of interest for cultural game jam activities to empower youth’s cultural participation through technology design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400713958
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706667
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2025
Event	2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Apr 2025 → 1 May 2025

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Conference	2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/04/25 → 1/05/25

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Eriksson, E., Costa, C. E. C., Goncalves, M., Nunes, I., Groen, M., Niederer, S., Holflod, K., & Nørgård, R. T. (2025). Cultural Game Jams with Youth: A Multiple-Site Case Study. In CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 666 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706667

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Cultural Game Jams with Youth: A Multiple-Site Case Study. / Eriksson, Eva; Costa, Conceição e Costa; Goncalves, Maria et al.
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. 666.

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