PizzaBlock: Designing Artefacts and Roleplay to Understand Decentralised Identity Management Systems

Chris Elsden; Jonathan Rankin; Chris Speed; John Vines; Ian Sibbald

doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395568

PizzaBlock: Designing Artefacts and Roleplay to Understand Decentralised Identity Management Systems

Chris Elsden, Jonathan Rankin, Chris Speed, John Vines, Ian Sibbald

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This pictorial describes in detail the design, and multiple iterations, of PizzaBlock - a role-playing game and design workshop to introduce non-technical participants to decentralised identity management systems. We have so far played this game with six different audiences, with over one hundred participants - iterating the design of the artefacts and gameplay each time. In this pictorial, we reflect on this RtD project to unpack: a) How we designed artefacts and roleplay to explore decentralised technologies and networks; b) How we communicated the key challenges and parameters of a complex system, through the production of a playable, interactive, analogue representation of that technology; c) How we struck a balance between playful tangible gameplay and high-fidelity technical analogy; and d) How approaches like PizzaBlock invite engagement with complex infrastructures and can support more participatory approaches to their design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Pages	1593–1606
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6974-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395568
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2020
Event	ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2020 - Eindhoven/Online, Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 https://dis.acm.org/2020/

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Conference	ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	DIS
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2020/

Keywords

Design Methods
Identity Management
Distributed Ledger Technologies
Bodystorming
Decentralisation
Pizza

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Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries
Speed, C., Jones, C., Rovatsos, M., Schafer, B., Smyth, M., Terras, M., Elsden, C., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Morgan, E., Osborne, N., Paneels, I. & Thornton, P.
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Project: Research

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Elsden, C, Rankin, J, Speed, C, Vines, J & Sibbald, I 2020, PizzaBlock: Designing Artefacts and Roleplay to Understand Decentralised Identity Management Systems. in DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. pp. 1593–1606, ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395568

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