In this paper, we describe research comparing Nintendo Wii games with game play that elicits low, medium, and high amounts of player motion. We asked players to rate fun, happiness, frustration, and energy level after each round of play, and analyzed ...

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are communication systems conveying messages through brain activity only. This paper elaborates on the suitability of BCI for 3D Video Games (VG). Thus, we first review some recent BCI-based 3D VG. We then discuss the ...

From the days of computer assisted language learning (CALL) [10], using computers as a means to acquire a new language has been a long standing research field. Chinese is a notoriousloy difficult language to learn, and teaching methods that are used ...

We introduce the Chain Model for object association games, and two social tagging games based on this model. GiveALink Slider and Great Minds Think Alike harness human power to generate large streams of high-quality social tagging data. Such social ...

Study of the brain is somewhat similar to understanding a multi-core processor. Video games offer a way to study how different sensory inputs affect motor output. Co-processors, comparator elements, and integrators of executive function and working ...

Alternate Reality Games layer a fictional world over the real world in order to provide players with a location-based interactive narrative experience. Building off previous work on game flow and enjoyment metrics in games, we present a metric based on ...

While computer games can give users many other forms of immersive entertainment, the social richness that exists in face to face interactions is being lost. In this paper we start by presenting a brief review on artificial board game opponents. Given ...

Although there has been research suggesting that people will treat computers socially and even consider computers as team-mates, there does not seem to have been any research looking specifically at how the perception of team-mate identity affects game ...

We analyze mechanisms of player retention and commitment in massively multiplayer online games. Our ground assumptions on player retention are based on a marketing model of customer retention and commitment. To measure the influence of gameplay, in-game ...

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) supporting complex social interactions among over 12 million players. While the "lone gamer" stereotype still persists, there is little data on gaming with other players with whom one ...

Visual cues are typically used in video games to indicate to the player what input to provide and when. Cues represented in multiple modalities that are presented simultaneously can be detected at lower thresholds, faster and more accurately than when ...

In the last decade, online video games in persistent virtual worlds have gained increasing popularity. Since some portion of the player population possesses a disability of some sort, as more players join in to play online games, the number of players ...

Many users with severe motor impairments, such as quadriplegics, interact with computers using an indirect selection technique called switch access scanning. Switch scanning allows for iteratively selecting an input from a set of input options using a ...

Gesture-based interaction adds a new level of immersion to video games, but players who are blind are unable to play them as games use visual cues to indicate what gesture to provide and when. Though visual cues can be substituted with audio or haptic ...

This paper describes the results of a comparative study carried out in a Singapore High School to test four versions of our game for learning, to investigate the effectiveness of puzzle and narrative-based games in engaging students, how the games ...