MirrorMe: Increasing prosocial behaviour in public transport

Ida Damen; Andrea Bravo; Anouk Harde; Regina Bernhaupt; Maximilian Brehm; John McClelland; Julian Frommel

doi:10.1145/3290607.3312961

MirrorMe: Increasing prosocial behaviour in public transport

Ida Damen, Andrea Bravo, Anouk Harde, Regina Bernhaupt, Maximilian Brehm, John McClelland, Julian Frommel

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Abstract

Public transport can be a place where commuters feel rushed or stressed. Missing your train, a delayed bus or crowdedness at the station does not induce happiness among most people. As a consequence, prosocial behaviour like offering someone a seat is displayed less often. We discuss the design and design process of MirrorMe, a simple communal game to induce positive mood of commuters. MirrorMe aims to increase prosocial behaviour through mimicry. Commuters are challenged to “make a face” and thereby connect to other commuters. MirrorMe will be installed in a public display close to a train station enabling access to all commuters and passersby. This work addresses the need for games and play in public setting to stimulate prosocial behaviour. It exemplifies how multidisciplinary HCI approaches in a gamejam setting can contribute to real life challenges. We conclude with open questions for impact evaluation in future work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312961
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Regan Mandryk, CHIlene Dion/Justin Beaver, Liz Gomez and Josh Tanenbaum for their great funny faces and their permission to use these photos. We would also like to thank Max Birk and Erik van der Spek for their helpful contribution on discussing and framing this paper.

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© 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Funding

We thank Regan Mandryk, CHIlene Dion/Justin Beaver, Liz Gomez and Josh Tanenbaum for their great funny faces and their permission to use these photos. We would also like to thank Max Birk and Erik van der Spek for their helpful contribution on discussing and framing this paper.

Keywords

Benevolent behaviour
Empathy games
Gamejam
Mood induction
Playful intervention
Prosocial behaviour
Public transport

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Damen, I., Bravo, A., Harde, A., Bernhaupt, R., Brehm, M., McClelland, J., & Frommel, J. (2019). MirrorMe: Increasing prosocial behaviour in public transport. In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3312961 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312961

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Damen, I, Bravo, A, Harde, A, Bernhaupt, R, Brehm, M, McClelland, J & Frommel, J 2019, MirrorMe: Increasing prosocial behaviour in public transport. in CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3312961, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312961

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CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3312961 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Damen I, Bravo A, Harde A, Bernhaupt R, Brehm M, McClelland J et al. MirrorMe: Increasing prosocial behaviour in public transport. In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. 3312961. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3290607.3312961

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