Psychologically structured approach to user experience in games Export

@inproceedings{komulainen_psychologically_2008, abstract = {User experience {(UX)} in digital games has recently become a common topic of research. Despite association between psychology and experiences is clear, results have often been inadequately explicated by using psychological terms. In this study we explore the variety of experiences (i.e. positive and negative) that are received from playing digital games. The main aim is to integrate gamers' descriptions of their {UX} to theoretical constructs in psychology to reach a more analytic approach to the topic. The results suggested that user experiences are versatile in nature but they consist of four major constructs: cognition, motivation, emotion and focused attention. In addition to the main findings, gender was related on how gaming was experienced. As a conclusion, this study offers a solid and empirical-based terminology for communicating about {UX} in games. Also, the results can be utilized in developing models and measurement tools for {UX} in games in future.}, address = {Lund, Sweden}, author = {Komulainen, Jeppe and Takatalo, Jari and Lehtonen, Miikka and Nyman, G\"{o}te}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges}, citeulike-article-id = {4036495}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463226}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1463160.1463226&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=14827401&CFTOKEN=24012653}, doi = {10.1145/1463160.1463226}, keywords = {gender, ux, video-games}, pages = {487--490}, posted-at = {2009-02-11 19:46:36}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{ACM}}, title = {Psychologically structured approach to user experience in games}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463226}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - komulainen_psychologically_2008 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4036495 N2 - User experience {(UX)} in digital games has recently become a common topic of research. Despite association between psychology and experiences is clear, results have often been inadequately explicated by using psychological terms. In this study we explore the variety of experiences (i.e. positive and negative) that are received from playing digital games. The main aim is to integrate gamers' descriptions of their {UX} to theoretical constructs in psychology to reach a more analytic approach to the topic. The results suggested that user experiences are versatile in nature but they consist of four major constructs: cognition, motivation, emotion and focused attention. In addition to the main findings, gender was related on how gaming was experienced. As a conclusion, this study offers a solid and empirical-based terminology for communicating about {UX} in games. Also, the results can be utilized in developing models and measurement tools for {UX} in games in future. AD - Lund, Sweden EP - 490 TI - Psychologically structured approach to user experience in games PB - {ACM} T2 - Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges SP - 487 KW - gender KW - ux KW - video-games AU - Komulainen, Jeppe AU - Takatalo, Jari AU - Lehtonen, Miikka AU - Nyman, Göte PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463226 ER -