Experiência do Usuário em Jogos Digitais: Uma Catalogação de Instrumentos de Avaliação

Abstract

As influências, métricas e aplicações da experiência do usuário vêm sendo investigadas em diversos contextos, inclusive em jogos digitais, sendo esta identificada como força motriz para impulsionar escolhas no desenvolvimento de jogos. Nesse contexto, jogos digitais demandam formas particulares de avaliação de UX, devido às particularidades da sua interação. Sendo assim, é necessário que profissionais e pesquisadores façam escolhas conscientes ao planejar essas avaliações. Esta pesquisa visa prover um catálogo de instrumentos de avaliação de UX em jogos, reunindo informações para orientar a seleção desses instrumentos no planejamento da avaliação de experiência do jogador.

Player Experience Evaluation: a Brief Panorama of Instruments and Research Opportunities

“…This work is an extension of a previous work describing the PX Instruments Catalog (Borges et al, 2019), in which we analyzed and cataloged 47 instruments for evaluating differ ent components of experience in games and virtual environ ments, based on four attributes (type of instrument, target users, UX qualities evaluated and year of publication).…”

“…In Step 2, aiming to refine the PX Instruments Catalog (Borges et al, 2019), two researchers reviewed the extracted data of the 47 previously cataloged instruments. Each re searcher read the papers, doublechecking and supplement ing information on type of instrument, approach, PX com ponents, and target users.…”

“…Besides, we also searched for trends in the instrument's data over the years and analyzed how their authors described the experience in games, their evaluated PX components and dimensions, as well as the relationships between them. The Table 1 shows the different attributes of the analysis in the previous paper (Borges et al, 2019) and the present study. The analysis of trends in the instruments data brought novel insights and perspectives about the definition of Player Experience, its facets, the understanding of its components and dimensions, the divergences about how to evaluate the PX components and about how cultural aspects are consid ered in PX evaluation.…”

“…We organized and summarized the set of 58 instruments and its data in a virtual catalog, which is an updated version of the catalog presented by Borges et al (2019). In its previ ous version, the catalog of PX instruments was integrated with the catalog of general UX instruments (Figure 7, in the Appendix).…”

“…This paper aims to help to fill in the gap of lacking infor mation about instruments to support the evaluation of Player Experience in digital games and their assumptions, consid ering the different components of the PX and types of avail able instruments. This work is an extension of a previously published paper (Borges et al, 2019) and aims to provide deeper analysis and discussions about what the PX evalua tion instruments measure, their applications in different con texts and about the terms used to define the Player Experi ence. In this paper, despite the lack of consensus about the terms used to describe the experience in games, we adopt the term Player Experience to present our discussions and analysis.…”