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

Affect-adaptive games gained in popularity over the last years in human computer
interactions studies, promising potential benefits for player experience, performance, and …

Music affects our emotions and behaviour in real life, yet despite its prevalence in games,
we have a limited understanding of its potential as a tool to explicitly influence player …

Recent work introduced the notion of'emotional challenge'promising for understanding more
unique and diverse player experiences (PX). Although emotional challenge has immediately …

Balancing games and producing content that remains interesting and challenging is a main
cost factor in the design and maintenance of games. Dynamic difficulty adjustments (DDA) …

Souls-like games are one of the most popular and emerging genres in the contemporary
gaming world. This study compared the behavioral characteristics, perspectives, and …

Game developers have employed dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) in designing game
artificial intelligence (AI) to improve players' game experience by adjusting the skill of game …

Gameful design, the process of creating a system with affordances for gameful experiences,
can be used to increase user engagement and enjoyment of digital interactive systems. It …

Experiencing the thrill of success is one of digital gaming's pleasures, but often also involves
the crush of repeated failure. To explore success and failure in play, we conducted a mixed …

Challenge is the core element of digital games. The wide spectrum of physical, cognitive,
and emotional challenge experiences provided by modern digital games can be evaluated …