Scaffolding Player Location Awareness through Audio Cues in First-Person Shooters

Johanson, Colby; Mandryk, Regan L.

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858172

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“…Our previous research on computer games spans various ages of players, ranging from a focus on children with developmental disabilities [ 95 ] to the elderly who live in institutionalized care [ 96 ]. Although we sometimes focus our research on committed players who self-identify as gamers [ 97 ] or play specific games [ 98 , 99 ], our use of crowdsourcing platforms (such as AMT used in this study) to gather data and conduct experiments allows us to access a broad and representative sample of people who enjoy playing a diverse range of digital games [ 34 , 43 , 92 ]. In creating game-based interventions for mental health issues, designers do not need to be concerned that their solutions will only appeal to a narrow group of people with specific gaming interests.…”

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confidence: 99%

Toward Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions: Player Habits and Preferences

Mandryk

Birk

2017

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundDesigners of digital interventions for mental health often leverage interactions from games because the intrinsic motivation that results from game-based interventions may increase participation and translate into improved treatment efficacy. However, there are outstanding questions about the suitability (eg, are desktop or mobile interventions more appropriate?) and intervention potential (eg, do people with depression activate enough to play?) of games for mental health.ObjectiveIn this paper, we aimed to describe the presently unknown relationship between gaming activity and indicators of well-being so that designers make informed choices when designing game-based interventions for mental health.MethodsWe gathered validated scales of well-being (Beck’s Depression Inventory [BDI-II], Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9], trait anxiety [TA], and basic psychological needs satisfaction [BPNS]), play importance (control over game behavior: control; gamer identity: identity), and play behavior (play frequency, platform preferences, and genre preferences) in a Web-based survey (N=491).ResultsThe majority of our participants played games a few times a week (45.3%, 222/490) or daily (34.3%, 168/490). In terms of depression, play frequency was associated with PHQ-9 (P=.003); PHQ-9 scores were higher for those who played daily than for those who played a few times a week or less. Similarly, for BDI-II (P=.01), scores were higher for those who played daily than for those who played once a week or less. Genre preferences were not associated with PHQ-9 (P=.32) or BDI-II (P=.68); however, platform preference (ie, mobile, desktop, or console) was associated with PHQ-9 (P=.04); desktop-only players had higher PHQ-9 scores than those who used all platforms. Platform preference was not associated with BDI-II (P=.18). In terms of anxiety, TA was not associated with frequency (P=.23), platform preference (P=.07), or genre preference (P=.99). In terms of needs satisfaction, BPNS was not associated with frequency (P=.25) or genre preference (P=.53), but it was associated with platform preference (P=.01); desktop-only players had lower needs satisfaction than those who used all platforms. As expected, play frequency was associated with identity (P<.001) and control (P<.001); those who played more had identified more as a gamer and had less control over their gameplay. Genre preference was associated with identity (P<.001) and control (P<.001); those who played most common genres had higher control over their play and identified most as gamers. Platform preference was not associated with control (P=.80), but was with identity (P=.001); those who played on all devices identified more as a gamer than those who played on mobiles or consoles only.ConclusionsOur results suggest that games are a suitable approach for mental health interventions as they are played broadly by people across a range of indicators of mental health. We further unpack the platform preferences and genre preferences of players with varying levels of well-b...

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Toward Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions: Player Habits and Preferences

Mandryk

Birk

2017

J Med Internet Res

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“…Audio can serve many functions within an interactive experience [18]. In games audio can provide specific information to a player [20], improve performance [19], affect player behaviour (e.g. increase risk taking [36]) and facilitate immersion/enjoyment [11,36].…”

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Exploring Manipulating In-VR Audio To Facilitate Verbal Interactions Between VR Users And Bystanders

O’Hagan

Williamson

Khamis

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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Despite recent work investigating how VR users can be made aware of bystanders, few have explored how bystander-VR user interactions may be facilitated by, for example, increasing the user's auditory awareness so they can better converse with bystanders. Through a lab study (N=15) we investigated 4 approaches of manipulating in-VR audio to facilitate verbal interactions between a VR user and bystander: (1) dynamically reducing application volume, (2) removing background audio, (3) removing sound effects and (4) removing all audio. Our results show audio manipulations can be used to significantly improve a VR user's auditory awareness at the cost of reducing sense of presence in VR. They also show most preferred increased awareness be balanced with decreased presence in VR, however, they also identify a subset of participants who prioritised increasing awareness no matter the cost to presence. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Virtual reality.

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“…A bad example of this would be to play calm music when the game is at a climax. Moving from general music to specific sound effects and audio cues, it has been seen that directional or 3D sound effects help the players know more about their environment, such as knowing the position of other players [11]. These 3D sound effects include sound like footsteps and other movement sound.…”

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DareFightingICE Competition: A Fighting Game Sound Design and AI Competition

Khan¹,

Nguyen²,

Dai³

et al. 2022

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This paper presents a new competition -at the 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) -called DareFightingICE Competition. The competition has two tracks: a sound design track and an AI track. The game platform for this competition is also called DareFightingICE, a fighting game platform. Dare-FightingICE is a sound-design-enhanced version of FightingICE, used earlier in a competition at CoG until 2021 to promote artificial intelligence (AI) research in fighting games. In the sound design track, participants compete for the best sound design, given the default sound design of DareFightingICE as a sample. Participants of the AI track are asked to develop their AI algorithm that controls a character given only sound as the input (blind AI) to fight against their opponent; a sample deep-learning blind AI will be provided by us. Our means to maximize the synergy between the two tracks are also described. This competition serves to come up with effective sound designs for visually impaired players, a group in the gaming community which has been mostly ignored. To the best of our knowledge, DareFightingICE Competition is the first of its kind within and outside of CoG.

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Scaffolding Player Location Awareness through Audio Cues in First-Person Shooters

Cited by 26 publications

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Toward Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions: Player Habits and Preferences

Toward Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions: Player Habits and Preferences

Exploring Manipulating In-VR Audio To Facilitate Verbal Interactions Between VR Users And Bystanders

DareFightingICE Competition: A Fighting Game Sound Design and AI Competition

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