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Player Research

How might we use and combine diverse methods to understand how people experience games, interact with and through them, and are affected by them? 


Project areas include:

  • Understanding and measuring player experience and motivation

  • Using tools from neuroscience and psychology to understand emotion in game players

  • Obtaining game player feedback without breaking immersion

iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:

Dr Sarah West

Dr Sarah West

Supervisor

Player Research, Accessibility, Design & Development

Dr Shanxin Yuan

Dr Shanxin Yuan

Supervisor

Creative Computing, Immersive Technology, Applied Games, Game AI, Player Research

Dr Matthew Whitby

Dr Matthew Whitby

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Design & Development

Dr David Zendle

Dr David Zendle

Supervisor

Game Data, Player Research

Lauren Winter

Lauren Winter

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Player Research

iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:

(PhD thesis) The Basic Needs in Games (BANG) Model of Video Games and Mental Health: Untangling the Positive and Negative Effects of Games with Better Science

N Ballou

Queen Mary University of London, 2023

“Clinically significant distress” in Internet Gaming Disorder: An individual participant meta-analysis

N Ballou, D Zendle

Computers in Human Behavior 129, 107140, 2022

Prevalence and Salience of Problematic Microtransactions in Top-Grossing Mobile and PC Games: A Content Analysis of User Reviews

E Petrovskaya, S Deterding, DI Zendle

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-12, 2022

Rinascimento: Playing Splendor-Like Games With Event-Value Functions

I Bravi, S Lucas

IEEE Transactions on Games 15 (1), 16-25, 2022

If everything is a loot box, nothing is: Response to Xiao et al.

D Zendle, P Cairns, R Meyer, S Waters, N Ballou

Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2022

Top-Rated LABS Abstracts 2021

S Pinkel, M Akten, RG Cepeda, H Choubassi, B Desouky, J Freeman, ...

Leonardo 55 (5), 497-502, 2022

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