Statistical Significance Testing--or Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST)--is common
to quantitative CHI PLAY research. Drawing from recent work in HCI and psychology …

We are in the midst of a global transition in which digital “screens” are no longer simply
entertainment devices and distractions; rather, adolescents are currently living in a hybrid …

Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a major psychological theory of human motivation, has
become increasingly popular in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on games and …

Designing serious games that engage lots of players is still a challenge, especially for
domains that introduce complex, specialised, and tedious tasks that are difficult to represent …

Abstract Background and Aim Gamefulness is commonly cited as the primary goal of
gamification, a family of approaches employed in education, business, healthcare …

Player typology models classify different player motivations and behaviours. These models
are necessary to design personalized games or to target specific audiences. However, many …

The Games User Research literature has advanced considerably on understanding why
people play games and what different types of games or mechanics they prefer. However …

Existing research in player typologies has presented theories to try and explain players'
behavior during gameplay. Many typologies are context or genre specific and therefore are …

Challenge is a key motivation for videogame play. But what kind of challenge types
videogames include, and which of them players prefer? This article helps to answer the …

The use of games as vehicles to study human-robot interaction (HRI) has been established
as a suitable solution to create more realistic and naturalistic opportunities to investigate …