Engagement in digital entertainment games: A systematic review

Boyle, Elizabeth; Connolly, Thomas; Hainey, Thomas; Boyle, James M.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.020

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“…The finding found in this study is similar to a study that had been reported by male students favored car race, sports games and role play game [18]. Similar findings had been also found from a study conducted by; the study reported that the male participants favored playing role play games [19].…”

Section: Like Football Sport This Game Is About Football It Captusupporting

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Male Students and Digital Game: Reason, Motivation and Feeling

Sin¹,

Talib²,

Norishah³

et al. 2014

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Section: Like Football Sport This Game Is About Football It Captusupporting

confidence: 82%

Male Students and Digital Game: Reason, Motivation and Feeling

Sin¹,

Talib²,

Norishah³

et al. 2014

IJIET

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“…Jennett et al [19] have studied the characteristics of the game (pace, interaction with other players on a website, realism, and easier identification with the shooter in a first-person game) fostering gamer immersion and enjoyment. Brockmyer et al [20] characterize the experience by its immersive dimension, and aim at assessing game engagement (see [21] for a review on engagement in digital games). Jegers [22] emphasizes instead the association between flow and enjoyment, while Cox et al [23] examine the role of challenge in immersion.…”

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Being enjoyably challenged is the key to an enjoyable gaming experience: an experimental approach in a first-person shooter game

Corcos

2018

Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology

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Applied to video games, Csikszentmihalyi’s work on flow evidences that a positive gaming experience is intrinsically self-rewarding and primarily determined by the skill/challenge balance. A multi-layered measure of enjoyment is built to take these components into account. Gamers were asked to report the concentration-enjoyment they experienced during a first-person shooter game, and to better assess the gap between skill and challenge, the challenge enjoyment was also rated. Along with concentration level, concentration enjoyment is used to build a gaming experience typology that accounts for the self-rewarding component. An enjoyment-based challenge mapping is also drawn up, crossing challenge enjoyment and challenge level. The results show that this integrative enjoyment measure strengthens the causal link between challenge and gaming experience. Most importantly, the findings suggest that challenge or concentration-based enjoyment measures outweigh the standard concentration and difficulty measures as they are more likely to ensure a pleasant and positive experience (flow or relaxation) for the gamers. Indeed, regardless of the reported level of challenge, a gamer is more likely to have a positive experience when challenged at a level she perceives as pleasant. This article emphasizes the importance for game publishers of gathering enjoyment-based concentration and challenge assessments to ensure a positive gaming experience and gamers’ commitment.

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“…Based on this definition, we study the methods for identifying engagement in digital gaming. (Boyle et al, 2012) observe in their systematic review on engagement in digital games, that the nature of engagement is still not well understood and that there is still a lack of a widely accepted definition of engagement. Defining an abstract concept like engagement is useful in order to facilitate scientific exchanges, especially when the concept is used in several fields.…”

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Identifying Learner’s Engagement in Learning Games - A Qualitative Approach based on Learner’s Traces of Interaction

Bouvier

Lavoué

Sehaba

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education

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Abstract:This paper proposes a qualitative approach for identifying learners' engagement from their traces of interactions performed in the learning game. Learners' engagement is an effective indicator of their motivation, acceptance and attachment to the learning activity. Engagement also informs about the relevance of the content and the effectiveness of the proposed interactive learning game. Designers, practitioners and teachers need information about engagement for analysing, designing and validating the learning game and also for modifying and adapting learning games in order to maintain their effectiveness. Currently, most of the approaches provide quantitative information about learner's engaged-behaviours. Thus, our objective is to extract qualitative information from learners-generated data. In this paper, we propose an approach in three stages that combines theoretical works on engagement and engaged-behaviours, Activity Theory and Trace Theory. By relying on traces of interactions, this approach enables to identify engaged-behaviours in low-constraint interactive games, directly, continuously, under ecological conditions and over a long time period. Then we present the results of a user study that demonstrate the feasibility and the validity of our approach. This study has been conducted on twelve traces composed of several thousands of learner-generated data.

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Engagement in digital entertainment games: A systematic review

Cited by 484 publications

References 60 publications

Male Students and Digital Game: Reason, Motivation and Feeling

Male Students and Digital Game: Reason, Motivation and Feeling

Being enjoyably challenged is the key to an enjoyable gaming experience: an experimental approach in a first-person shooter game

Identifying Learner’s Engagement in Learning Games - A Qualitative Approach based on Learner’s Traces of Interaction

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