What Is Being Played in the World? Mobile eSport Applications

Atalay, Ahmet; Topuz, Arif Cem

doi:10.13189/ujer.2018.060615

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“…Furthermore, the overall development of smartphones has made an interactive market trend in playing online games in a new model, mobile esports. One of the most prominent applications in Google Playstore or Apple App store is the esports application (Atalay & Topuz, 2018). Esports research in informatics ranges from data mining, human-computer interactions, and information systems, including users' motivation to watch and participate in esports competitions (Chiu et al, 2021).…”

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The Effect of Visual Appeal, Social Interaction, Enjoyment, and Competition on Mobile Esports Acceptance by Urban Citizens

Wilis

Manik

2022

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Aim/Purpose: This study investigated a model of mobile esports acceptance among urban citizens based on an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Background: Currently, esports are increasingly popular and in demand by the public. Supported by the widespread development of mobile devices, it has become an interactive market trend to play games in a new model, mobile esports. Methodology: This study collected data from 400 respondents and analyzed it using partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Contribution: This study addresses two research gaps. The first gap is limited esports information systems studies, particularly in mobile esports acceptance studies. The second gap is limited exploration of external variables in online gaming acceptance studies. Thus, this study proposed a TAM extended model by integrating the TAM native variables with other external variables such as visual appeal, enjoyment, social interaction, and competition to explore mobile esports acceptance by urban citizens. Findings: Nine hypotheses were accepted, and four were rejected. The visual appeal did not affect the acceptance. Meanwhile, social interaction and enjoyment significantly affected both perceived ease of use and usefulness. However, perceived ease of use surprisingly had an insignificant effect on attitude toward using mobile esports. Moreover, competition significantly affected the acceptance, particularly on perceived usefulness. Recommendations for Practitioners: Fresh and innovative features, such as new game items or themes, should be frequently introduced to enhance players’ continued enjoyment. Moreover, mobile esports providers should offer a solid platform to excite players’ interactions to increase the likelihood that users feel content. On the other hand, the national sports ministry/agency or responsible authorities should organize many esports competitions, big or small, to search for new talents. Recommendation for Researchers: Visual appeal in this study did not influence the perceived ease of use or usefulness. However, it could affect enjoyment. Thus, it would be worth revisiting the relationship between visual appeal and enjoyment. At the same time, perceived ease of use is a strong driver for the continued use of most online games, but not in this study. It could indicate significant differences between mobile esports and typical online games, one of which is the different purposes. Users might play online games for recreational intention, but players would use mobile esports to compete, win, or even get monetary rewards. Therefore, although users might find mobile esports challenging and hard to use, they tend to keep playing it. Thus, monetary rewards could be considered a determinant of the continuation of use. Impact on Society: Nowadays, users are being paid for playing games. It also would be an excel-lent job if they become professional esports athletes. This study investigated factors that could affect the continued use of mobile esports. Like other jobs, playing games professionally in the long term could make the players tedious and tired. Therefore, responsible parties, like mobile esports providers or governments, could use the recommendations of this study to promote positive behavior among the players. They will not feel like working and still con-sider playing mobile esports a hobby if they happily do the job. In the long run, the players could also make a nation’s society proud if they can be a champion in prestigious competitions. Future Research: A larger sample size will be needed to generalize the results, such as for a nation. It is also preferable if the sample is randomized systematically. Future works should also investigate whether the same results are acquired in other mobile esports. Furthermore, to extend our knowledge and deepen our understanding of the variables that influence mobile esports adoption, the subsequent research could look at other mobile esports acceptability based on characteristics of system functionality and moderator effects. Finally, longitudinal data-collecting approaches are suggested for future studies since behavior can change over time.

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The Effect of Visual Appeal, Social Interaction, Enjoyment, and Competition on Mobile Esports Acceptance by Urban Citizens

Wilis

Manik

2022

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“…Por último, aparecen estudios que abordan la implementación tecnológica en el mundo de los esports (N. Taylor & Elam, 2018;Witkowski, 2012) como la inteligencia artificial o el big data y cómo esto ha producido mejoras en dicho ámbito (Yongming, Wang, & Haohao, 2018), además de otras tecnologías que irrumpirán pronto en los deportes electrónicos, como la realidad virtual (Finch & Yang, 2016;Y. H. Kim & Bang, 2018) o los juegos móviles (Atalay & Topuz, 2018) y que modificarán la forma en que estos se entienden. En un estudio comparativo entre las influencias del marketing en jugadores de esports en Corea y España, Fanjul-Peyro, González-Onate, y Peña-Hernández (2019) señalan que la publicidad prevalente en ellos reside en la unión de la marca a productos utilizados por jugadores profesionales de deportes electrónicos.…”

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Esports y ciencia: sintonizando con el fenómeno de los deportes electrónicos (Esports and science: Tuning into the phenomenon of electronic sports)

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The cultural changes suffered in the last decades have originated different emergent phenomena that have burst into our time. Electronic sports (esports) have been consolidated as one of them, giving rise to their study from multiple areas, especially from the sciences of physical-sports activity (leisure, performance, professionalization ...). Therefore, this work illustrates how the scientific-academic world is currently addressing this phenomenon, using the PRISMA-P protocol for systematic reviews and the databases Scopus and Web of Science as main sources of information. The results provide a total of 106 works on the subject, which have been categorized into four thematic axes: physical activity and health; concept of sport; esports as a social phenomenon; and marketing and legal framework. As a main result, there is a scarce corpus of scientific-academic knowledge about esports, in comparison with its social impact. The dispersion in the topics from which it is approached is due, fundamentally, to the almost non-existent legal regulatory framework, besides the abstract of the phenomenon to explain it from the traditional concept of sport.

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“…Therefore, without a precise definition of the research subjects, there will be certain obstacles to the generalization and application of the conclusions of these studies. (3) The existence of multiple alternative and related concepts without a uniform definition and use standard [ [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] ] will result in the misuse of these concepts, and misunderstandings of the conclusions of the related research. Therefore, clarifying the concept of esports and the relationship between esports and its related concepts is an important basis for future research, and it is also a necessary part of improving public awareness of esports and promoting the development of the esports industry.…”

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confidence: 99%