Cognitive load in Games for Health - A discussion

Iyer, Ravishankar Subramani; Orji, Rita

doi:10.1109/segah49190.2020.9201767

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“…Therefore, it is likely that the players would feel a higher cognitive load while playing our game than in other games they played before, naturally leading to more frequent 'No' and 'Maybe' for questions relevant to the presence aspect of engagement. It is also known that third person games typical induce lower feeling of presence than first person games [182] and that presence in the virtual game environment often decreases with increasing cognitive loads [183,184]. Another reason for the low average for presence could be the fact that all NPC interactions were socio-economic scenario based and there were no other obstacles for the player to overcome, thus rendering a form of monotonicity in the interactions [85,185,186].…”

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Socio-Economic Decision Making and Emotion Elicitation with a Serious Game in the Wild

et al. 2023

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There is a growing body of research in the literature that investigates the relationship between emotions and decision-making in socio-economic contexts. Previous research has used Serious Games (SGs) based on game theory paradigms with socio-economic contexts to explore this relationship in controlled settings, but it is unclear whether such SGs can be applied in the wild, which would improve their usability in natural settings. The emergence and widespread availability of mobile computing technologies have enabled the creation of diverse SG implementations. We developed a mobile SG that combines four socio-economic interactions (trust game, ultimatum game, dictator game, prisoner’s dilemma game) into one narrative and conducted an initial experiment with eight participants. This study discusses the challenges of deploying SGs in the wild and proposes solutions to overcome them. The results from the preliminary user experience experiment indicate that the SG is a suitable tool for emotion elicitation in the wild and that the results are similar to those observed in previous studies under controlled environments. We argue that these findings suggest that mobile SGs have potential for studying the relationship between emotions and decision-making in socio-economic contexts in the wild, improving the reach of these methods beyond laboratory settings.

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