An Edu-larp (educational live action roleplay) is a semi-structured role-playing activity, in which participants engage a subject matter by taking on particular roles and/or personas and enacting situations and scenarios to create immersive learning. Edu-larps are often associated with formal learning in schools, but larp as an educational method and as a tool for experiential learning can also be implemented more broadly; in professional design teams, stakeholder groups, at museums, and other semi-formal venues. 

We are hosting a workshop at the 2023 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI), which will connect CHI attendees of various disciplines interested in this topic, with the outcome to understand how edu-larp might be an effective way of augmenting existing teaching and research within HCI. During the workshop, attendees will participate in numerous edu-larp exercises designed to introduce and orient them to the concept, and facilitate discussion about the different ways edu-larp can be leveraged in the broad domain of HCI.

We invite researchers and scholars interested in live-action roleplay (larp) to join us for the first edu-larp workshop at CHI 2023. If interested, submit a brief position paper (3-pages maximum) outlining your interest in the topic (how you are using larp or edu-larp as a tool already, or how you are thinking about using it in your own teaching, research or design practice), and a short author biography (one half page). Email your proposal submission to Raquel Robinson, rbrobins@ucsc.edu by February 23, 2023.