It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the third ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play -- CHI PLAY '16. See more at: http://chiplay.org.

CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference series for researchers ...

Achievements are a common feature of modern video games. Early research efforts have attempted to classify achievements into taxonomies in order to identify achievement types and to learn about their potential affect on players, however, these studies ...

Violence is a key element in video games and despite the extensive research in video game violence, there is still a debate on its psychophysiological effect. There is a lack of understanding on the elements of video game violence that influence ...

Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised minorities, such as migrants, prompting them to 'see what they see'. In ...

A significant issue in research on educational games lies in evaluating their educational impact. Although game analytics is often leveraged in the game industry, it can also provide insight into player actions, strategy development, and the learning ...

Multiplayer Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (MDDA) features are becoming increasingly common in competitive multiplayer video games as a means to balance challenge between differently-skilled players. However, without a thorough understanding of how MDDA ...

Online multiplayer games are often rich sources of complex social interactions. In this paper, we focus on the unique player experiences (PX) created by Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games. We examine key phases of players' engagement with the ...

Interpersonal trust is one of the key components of efficient teamwork. Research suggests two main approaches for trust formation: personal information exchange (e.g., social icebreakers), and creating a context of risk and interdependence (e.g., trust ...

Networking is a vital but stressful aspect of academic life, one which digital games may be able to make more playful. Existing examples of networking games require players to interact as part of the game-play, and therefore do not bypass the stressful ...

Player experience is an important field of digital games research to understand how games influence players. A common way to directly measure players' reported experiences is through questionnaires. However, the large number of questionnaires currently ...

Team-based combat games rank among the most popular genres of online games. Their competitive and skill-based gameplay requires players to develop new and constantly refine existing skills in order to succeed and stay ahead of the game. Players of such ...

This paper contributes a systematic research approach as well as findings of an empirical study conducted to investigate the effect of virtual agents on task performance and player experience in digital games. As virtual agents are supposed to evoke ...

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 halt waning motivation; however, research suggests that although this ...

This paper investigates a concept for highly ubiquitous game interactions in pervasive games. Pervasive gaming is increasingly popular, but steadily improving mobile and ubiquitous technologies (e.g. smartwatches) have yet to be utilised to their full ...

Neurofeedback training can reduce symptoms related to epileptic seizures, attention deficits, and Asperger's Syndrome, and often uses games to motivate participation over the long term needed to see improvements. Most neurofeedback games use negative ...

Human computation games (HCGs) are games in which player interaction is used to solve problems intractable for computers. Most HCGs use simple reward mechanisms such as points or leaderboards, but in contrast, many mainstream games use more complex, and ...