Personality, motivation and video games

Johnson, Daniel; Gardner, John

doi:10.1145/1952222.1952281

Cited by 92 publications

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“…The experience of relatedness is a heightened feeling of belonging to a group, or being connected to others. Although some have argued for leaving out the subscales on relatedness in single-user systems [18], it is possible that input types could differentially support a participant's feeling of connection to others, and thus was included them in our study.…”

Section: Evaluating Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the touch experience

Watson

Hancock

Mandryk

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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In this paper, we evaluate the performance and experience differences between direct touch and mouse input on horizontal and vertical surfaces using a simple application and several validated scales. We find that, not only are both speed and accuracy improved when using the multi-touch display over a mouse, but that participants were happier and more engaged. They also felt more competent, in control, related to other people, and immersed. Surprisingly, these results cannot be explained by the intuitiveness of the controller, and the benefits of touch did not come at the expense of perceived workload. Our work shows the added value of considering experience in addition to traditional measures of performance, and demonstrates an effective and efficient method for gathering experience during interaction with surface applications. We conclude by discussing how an understanding of this experience can help in designing touch applications.

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Section: Evaluating Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the touch experience

Watson

Hancock

Mandryk

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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“…On the other hand, it could be argued that people who are open to play (various) games and engage in various virtual worlds and experiences have a high openness to experience. Prior research indicates that people with high openness to experience tend to prefer games with a high level of exploration such as role-playing games [RPGs;40].…”

Section: Mindfulness Factor 3: Openness To Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Mindful Gaming: How Digital Games Can Improve Mindfulness

Sliwinski

Katsikitis

Jones

2015

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015

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“…A study by Johnson and Gardner [15] examined relationships between player personality and player experience, demonstrating that personality traits moderate the way we experience games. Additionally, recent research on player modeling has shown that personality moderates the way in which needs satisfaction influences enjoyment and effort in play [4].…”

Section: Different Player Groups and Player Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

How Self-Esteem Shapes our Interactions with Play Technologies

Birk

Mandryk

Miller

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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The experience that results from video game play is shaped by the play environment, but also by various characteristics of the person playing. We investigated how player selfesteem predicts post-game motivation (enjoyment, effort, and tension), and conducted mediated regressions to show that players' self-esteem alters post-play motivation by affecting how needs are satisfied during play. We also explored how self-esteem predicts post-play positive and negative affect and conducted mediated regressions to show how motivation partially mediates those effects. Our work suggests that players with different levels of self-esteem experience games differently; but more importantly, we provide an explanation of how these differences form by examining the mechanisms during games that ultimately contribute to player experience. Situating our results within theories of self, we discuss the importance of self-esteem for understanding player experience, describe the implications for games research, and consider how selfesteem shapes our interactions with play technologies.

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Personality, motivation and video games

Cited by 92 publications

References 8 publications

Deconstructing the touch experience

Deconstructing the touch experience

Mindful Gaming: How Digital Games Can Improve Mindfulness

How Self-Esteem Shapes our Interactions with Play Technologies

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