What is the Meeple Mate? What does it do?

We are running a cultural probe study to understand what artefacts can tell us about improving the experience of boardgaming and other hobbies for people who can’t be in the same place.

If you join the Meeple Mate study, we will provide you with an artefact to place in your home for about eight days. We will ask you to take photos of it with a camera that we supply and to complete a daily diary where we ask you questions about the artefact and about playing games. We encourage you to be as creative as you like in completing the diary – you can write in it, draw pictures, create poems, stick things into it. About a week after we collect the artefact from you, we will invite you to join an online focus group to discuss your experiences.

If your partner or housemate is also interested in games and would like to participate in the study, we will invite them to participate and give them a diary pack as well.

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Interested in participating? Register your interest here.