Cooperating to Compete: the Mutuality of Cooperation and Competition in Boardgame Play
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Observational study of seven game nights with 33 participants across Hanabi Seven Wonders and Concordia uses overhead video and Tobii Pro gaze glasses to show cooperation supporting competition rather than opposing it Players distribute cognitive work across pieces bodies and history of components and cooperate at physical syntactic strategic and personality layers Key findings: strategic bargaining and rule negotiation enable competition granular components and use history become cognitive artifacts and groups routinely accept takebacks and teaching to keep play flowing
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