User-Centered Design in Games

Pagulayan, Randy J.; Keeker, Kevin; Fuller, Thomas; Wixon, Dennis; Romero, Ramon L.; Gunn, Daniel V.

doi:10.1201/9781420088885-20

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Using Traces to Qualify Learner's Engagement in Game-Based Learning

Bouvier

Sehaba

Lavoué

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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Analysing learners' behaviour continuously and under ecological conditions can help designers, trainers and teachers to analyse, design, validate, and also to adapt and personalize the learning game. Metrics methods propose to collect any interactions between a user and the game. While classical metrics methods fall within quantitative approaches, we aim to extract some qualitative information on high-level behaviours. This paper is focused on learners' engaged-behaviours. Thus, to identify and to qualify learners' engagement from their traces of interaction, we combine a theoretical work on engagement and engaged-behaviours, the Self-Determination Theory, the Activity Theory and a trace framework. We implemented this approach on 12 players' interaction data collected during four months. As a result, we identified and qualified four activities that refer to different types of engaged-behaviours. Thus, this user study show the feasibility and the validity of the proposed approach.

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Using Traces to Qualify Learner's Engagement in Game-Based Learning

Bouvier

Sehaba

Lavoué

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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Flow in gaming: literature synthesis and framework development

Nah

Eschenbrenner

Zeng

et al. 2014

IJISAM

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Flow, a state of optimal experience where one is completely absorbed and immersed in an activity, is an important phenomenon for studying and designing games. In this article, we synthesise the literature on flow in gaming to discern existing research streams, and identify the antecedents, dimensions, and outcomes of flow which are then integrated into a framework. Based on the findings, we provide suggestions for game design elements that practitioners, such as game designers, may find useful for creating or inducing flow in gaming. We also discuss implications for research and practice as well as provide suggestions for future research.

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Enhancing Mobile Satisfaction through Integration of Usability and Flow

Hung¹,

Chou²,

Ding³

2012

EMR

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This research examines the influence of usability and flow on user satisfaction of mobile gaming. Two structural equation models test the influences resulted from usability and flow and compare differences between two main types of mobile games, the RPG/adventure and causal/puzzle types preferred most in Taiwan. The results show that the integrative model of usability and flow explains user mobile satisfaction well. Accordingly, this paper discusses strategies for enhancing user mobile satisfaction by achieving usability and flow experience through collaboration among three important complementary mobile players: game vendors, mobile phone manufactures, and mobile network operators.

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User-Centered Design in Games

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Using Traces to Qualify Learner's Engagement in Game-Based Learning

Using Traces to Qualify Learner's Engagement in Game-Based Learning

Flow in gaming: literature synthesis and framework development

Enhancing Mobile Satisfaction through Integration of Usability and Flow

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