Reflections on Rigor and Reproducibility: Moving Toward a Community Standard for the Description of Artifacts in Experimental Games Research

Abstract

Games research routinely employs custom-designed artifacts as research tools, but there is no standard for their description. To improve rigor and reproducibility of experimental games research within the CHI PLAY community, this piece of work argues for the development of a community standard for the description of games that are used as research tools, allowing authors to describe their interventions in a structured way, and making it easier for all of us to understand and reproduce each other’s work.