Emotional Exploration and the Eudaimonic Gameplay Experience: A Grounded Theory

Cole, Tom; Gillies, Marco

doi:10.1145/3491102.3502002

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“…KOSA AND JOHNSON-GLENBERG 2 Research on eudaimonic experiences in games is gaining traction lately (Daneels, Bowman, et al, 2021). Many of those experiences manifest as socially connecting, reflective, emotionally moving, morally ambiguous, or elevating experiences in games (Cole & Gillies, 2022;Daneels et al, 2020). These types of games may also induce insights about the human condition, present moral dilemmas, or emphasize "bigger and difficult questions in life," which all have an enriching effect (Oliver et al, 2016).…”

Section: Eudaimonia In Games and Vrmentioning

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The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

Kosa,

Johnson-Glenberg

2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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This study examines whether eudaimonic virtual reality (VR) games are more effective than hedonic VR games, hedonic desktop games, or noninteractive, nonimmersive videos for daily stress reduction and mood management. To test this, we recruited university participants (N = 202), and randomly assigned them to one of these four conditions. Results showed that eudaimonic VR gaming, hedonic VR gaming, and hedonic desktop gaming conditions were effective for inducing positive moods, and providing recovery experiences compared to a (desktop) video-watching control condition. However, eudaimonic VR game condition performed best in terms of reducing stress and alleviating negative affect. Therefore, in addition to providing positive experiences, eudaimonic VR games also show promise especially when players seek to decrease stress and regulate negative emotions. The overall pattern for the postplay stress scores was in decreasing order from noninteractive to interactive, from nonimmersive to immersive, and from nonmeaningful to meaningful conditions for stress and negative mood and in increasing order for recovery and positive mood. This provided support to the idea that the qualities of interactivity, immersion, and meaningfulness have additive effects, and might incrementally accumulate and contribute to stress reduction. Implications and suggestions are presented, and future work is discussed. Public Policy Relevance StatementMeaningful narrative-based content in commercial virtual reality games was found to be effective both in alleviating stress and elevating mood. Additionally, it was found that interactivity, immersion, and meaningfulness of the content might be additive, meaning that when all of these three are included for an experience, it becomes more effective in terms of stress reduction.

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Section: Eudaimonia In Games and Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

Kosa,

Johnson-Glenberg

2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…These relationships may therefore represent an opportunity to extend the theory to accommodate relationships that primarily offer an illusion of care and need support. Emotional exploration [112] and perspective-taking [208] were recently proposed as relatedness-supporting devices in single-player games, for example.…”

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Self-Determination Theory in HCI Games Research: Current Uses and Open Questions

Tyack

Mekler

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

117

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Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a major psychological theory of human motivation, has become increasingly popular in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on games and play. However, it remains unclear how SDT has advanced HCI games research, or how HCI games scholars engage with the theory. We reviewed 110 CHI and CHI PLAY papers that cited SDT to gain a better understanding of the ways the theory has contributed to HCI games research. We find that SDT, and in particular, the concepts of need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation, have been widely applied to analyse the player experience and inform game design. Despite the popularity of SDT-based measures, however, prominent core concepts and mini-theories are rarely considered explicitly, and few papers engage with SDT beyond descriptive accounts. We highlight conceptual gaps at the intersection of SDT and HCI games research, and identify opportunities for SDT propositions, concepts, and measures to more productively inform future work.

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Exploring the Emotional-Behavioral Relationship in Action Role-Playing Games: Diverse Player Responses to Varying Difficulty Challenges

Cao

2024

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Emotional Exploration and the Eudaimonic Gameplay Experience: A Grounded Theory

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

Self-Determination Theory in HCI Games Research: Current Uses and Open Questions

Exploring the Emotional-Behavioral Relationship in Action Role-Playing Games: Diverse Player Responses to Varying Difficulty Challenges

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