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Assignment 8 Due: 12/23/04 Questions from your perspective as a role-play participant: 1. What were your impressions of your role-play experience? I felt that the role playing experience was a useful view of how people with different backgrounds and interests can come together and collaborate towards a common solution. 2. Were there any aspects of the role play that made you apprehensive? Not really. I generally do experience fear and anxiety when I'm "put on the spot", but I was fairly comfortable with the experience. I tried to choose a player that fit me so that it would be easier to play the character. 3. Did you feel that the role play contained any elements of what real users from a real neighborhood working on a real problem might have experienced? I think it did. Some parts of the role-play became heated and at times people were putting in information that was dishonest to influence a decision that would be most beneficial to them. I imagine that this would happen in a real neighborhood assembly. 4. What do you think might have been lacking from the experience that would have existed in a real situation rather than a role play? I think that trying this in a real setting would end in chaos. There would be more heated debate and collaboration would be impossible with such a wide array of interests. Also, I imagine there would be a battle of the egos. The more assertive people would walk all over the less assertive. I saw this to some extent while watching the role-play. 5. Were there any ways that the technology aided you in reaching a decision? Were there any ways that it impeded the process? The technology I feel really only supports four players at a time because the board gets messy and confusing after a short period of time with a large number of players. The 2-d board is also limited when trying to look at altitude concerns. The fact that the pieces have to be shared and overloaded also adds some confusion. The ability to easily zoom in and zoom out would be extremely useful so that different perspectives can be seen. Questions from a
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