Fostering intrinsic motivation with interactive applications can increase the enjoyment that
people experience when using technology, but can also translate into more invested effort. We …

Whether they are made to entertain you, or to educate you, good video games engage you.
Significant research has tried to understand engagement in games by measuring player …

Games for training aim to keep interest in training activities high by making them more enjoyable,
yet interest and motivation often wane over time. Games frequently employ rewards to …

Game balancing can help players with different skill levels play multiplayer games together;
however, little is known about how the balancing approach affects performance, experience, …

We tend to treat the 18-55 demographic of gamers as a monolithic and homogenous group,
even though the older ones witnessed the entire rise of the videogame and the younger …

Digital self-improvement programs (eg, interventions, training programs, self-help apps) are
widely accessible, but can not employ the same degree of external regulation as programs …

People of color comprise a large proportion of the US player base, yet are systematically
and grossly underrepresented in digital games. We constructed a survey to assess if players …

Questionnaires are vital in games user research (GUR) to assess player experience (PX).
However, having too many questions in surveys prevents wider uptake among GUR …

Background: Designers of digital interventions for mental health often leverage interactions
from games because the intrinsic motivation that results from game-based interventions may …

Assessing and inducing player experience (pX) in games user research (GUR) is complicated
because of the tradeoff between maintaining rigour through experimental control and …