Difficulty in videogames

Aponte, Maria-Virginia; Levieux, Guillaume; Natkin, Stéphane

doi:10.1145/2071423.2071484

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Difficulty is generally defined as the commitment taken to effectively perform an operation [11]. Aponte et al [26] claim that the difficulty of a challenge is the probability that the player will fail at it. As described above, difficulty is considered a key factor in promoting the motivation of learners in educational games and resulting in better learning outcomes [27].…”

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First Steps Towards Automatically Defining the Difficulty of Maze-Based Programming Challenges

Kanellopoulou

Garaizar

2021

IEEE Access

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Section: Difficulty In Educational Gamesmentioning

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First Steps Towards Automatically Defining the Difficulty of Maze-Based Programming Challenges

Kanellopoulou

Garaizar

2021

IEEE Access

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“…A gameplay is composed of (1) challenges that the player faces, (2) the actions the player can do to address the challenge [17]. Challenges can be of dierent types regarding the kind of actions that the player has to do: sensitive / perceptive, cognitive (logical), motor [18]. In therapeutic games, the gameplay is what provide the therapeutic eect, and thus is the most important aspect to design.…”

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“…Even if challenges have a specic level of diculty, a moderate challenge can be too easy for an expert and too hard for a beginner. As a consequence, the actual diculty level of a challenge is dependent of the capabilities of the player [18]. Thus, we need to assess the player capabilities to be able to set an eective diculty level for him.…”

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Monitoring player attention: A non-invasive measurement method applied to serious games

Osman

Dupire

Mader

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Entertainment Computing

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In this paper, we report on an experiment to monitor the user attention in a serious game called Le Village aux Oiseaux (The Birds' Village). The main motivation of this study stems from the importance of dynamically adapting scenario and challenges to the skills of each player. The solution we developed is a real-time, non-invasive visual attention monitoring method, using an evaluation of the reaction time in an open and continuous space. Our results provide information that can be useful to manage automatically each game session. It can be of benet to game designers as well, allowing them to use this information to improve gameplay, manage the diculty of game environments, and optimize positioning of visual resources on screen.

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“…Similarly, video game players often seek out demanding and/or challenging games-if the game does not sufficiently tax players' abilities, it will not be enjoyed as much: "difficulty is part of the fun" (Aponte et al, 2011). Less anecdotally, the degree to which an individual intrinsically values cognitive effort-operationalized by the Need for Cognition scale-has been found to predict effort aversion as well as reward-induced adjustments in cognitive control suggesting that the subjective costs of cognitive effort vary considerably from individual to individual (Sandra & Otto, 2018;Westbrooke et al, 2013).…”

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