"It was Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Candlestick": Using Artifacts to Create An Alternate Reality Game-The Unworkshop
This addresses networking issues for academic conference attendees, but it is incremental as it builds on existing workshop formats with a novel interactive twist.
The paper tackles the problem of superficial connections in academic workshops by introducing an unworkshop format that uses interactive technological artifacts to create an alternate reality game, resulting in deep connections and peer-learning.
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.