Explaining the enjoyment of playing video games: the role of competition Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:895357, abstract = {The tremendous and still growing popularity of computer and video games has inspired Communication Researchers and Media Psychologists to investigate the factors of the enjoyment experienced by the players. Apparently, the games' interactivity allows for a continuous stream of challenging and competitive situations that have to be resolved by the players. Competition is therefore regarded a key element of the explanation of players' entertainment experience. Subsequent to a theoretical explication, empirical evidence for the role of competition in the playing process and the impact of competitiveness for selective exposure to computer games is reported from a field experiment (N = 349) and an online survey study (N = 795).}, address = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA}, author = {Vorderer, Peter and Hartmann, Tilo and Klimmt, Christoph}, booktitle = {ICEC '03: Proceedings of the second international conference on Entertainment computing}, citeulike-article-id = {895357}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=958735}, keywords = {competition, computer, enjoyment, entertainment, games, video}, pages = {1--9}, posted-at = {2007-12-29 06:39:15}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Carnegie Mellon University}, title = {Explaining the enjoyment of playing video games: the role of competition}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=958735}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:895357 L3 - citeulike-article-id:895357 N2 - The tremendous and still growing popularity of computer and video games has inspired Communication Researchers and Media Psychologists to investigate the factors of the enjoyment experienced by the players. Apparently, the games‘ interactivity allows for a continuous stream of challenging and competitive situations that have to be resolved by the players. Competition is therefore regarded a key element of the explanation of players‘ entertainment experience. Subsequent to a theoretical explication, empirical evidence for the role of competition in the playing process and the impact of competitiveness for selective exposure to computer games is reported from a field experiment (N = 349) and an online survey study (N = 795). AD - Pittsburgh, PA, USA EP - 9 TI - Explaining the enjoyment of playing video games: the role of competition PB - Carnegie Mellon University T2 - ICEC '03: Proceedings of the second international conference on Entertainment computing SP - 1 KW - competition KW - computer KW - enjoyment KW - entertainment KW - games KW - video AU - Vorderer, Peter AU - Hartmann, Tilo AU - Klimmt, Christoph PY - 2003/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=958735 ER -