In an effective e-learning game, the learner's enjoyment acts as a catalyst to encourage
his/her learning initiative. Therefore, the availability of a scale that effectively measures the …

Computers used to be for geeks. And geeks were fine with dealing with a difficult and finicky
interface--they liked this--it was even a sort of badge of honor (eg the Unix geeks). But …

Player experience is an important field of digital games research to understand how games
influence players. A common way to directly measure players' reported experiences is …

Lowering the barrier between education and real entertainment is an important challenge in
order to better exploit the potential of computers and reach a demographic that is …

Designing games that support knowledge and skill acquisition has become a promising
frontier of education techniques, since games are able to capture the user concentration for …

New display technologies, such as 3D stereoscopic displays, provide opportunities to
enhance the user experience (UX) in digital games. A widely-held belief is “the more stereo …

This chapter describes an approach to evaluating user experience in video games and
advanced interaction games (tabletop games) by using heuristics. We provide a short …

Player experience is an important area of research in digital games. The findings are crucial
for the developers, designers and reviewers of games, allowing for the better understanding …

This paper presents a framework for adapting game elements to the player's affective state
and the integration of the framework in a virtual reality environment for moral development …

This experimental study explores how game experience differs between players with
different gameplay histories within the same game universe. We are interested in how …