All Tomorrow’s Parties

Größbacher, Stefanie; Judmaier, Peter; Schöffer, Lucas; Malischnig, Doris; Bilek, Nicole; Kreiger, Mylene

doi:10.1145/3406324.3410545

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“…Serious games do not seek to empower players only within the game, but rather seek to empower people in regards to certain societal and personal issues [see 86]. For example, serious game developers seek to change the perception of mental health problems[e.g., 32], empower players to develop emotional regulation skills [88] or sensitize them towards risk taking behavior [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

“I’m the leader and I’m going to save the world”: Characterizing Empowering and Disempowering Game Experiences

Vornhagen,

Bennett,

Murphy

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Empowering people through technology is a core concern of HCI, yet little is known about how players experience empowerment or disempowerment through videogames. We surveyed 250 participants about their dis-/empowering videogame experiences, investigating why they felt dis-/empowered, and how these experiences related to core player experience constructs including emotion and basic needs satisfaction. While empowering experiences were often positive, and disempowering experiences often negative, we found meaningful exceptions to this, and a surprising complexity in player accounts. We capture this diversity in seven themes. These range from ”heroic victories” which follow long periods of failure, to positive experiences of disempowerment, which were appreciated for their narrative meaning. By articulating these complex experiences, and relating them to quantitative measures we provide a foundation for understanding of the role of dis-/empowerment in player experience, and highlight avenues for future work. Data and analyses are available at https://osf.io/zhtu8/

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%