We constantly both learn from and play with the world around us. We interact, we experiment, and we are curious; and through the spirit of Zimmerman’s ideas on ‘gaming literacy’, we can see the world as opportunities for play. This project thus presents ...

Since the advent of augmented reality, video game representations have been extended beyond the display. Many studies have used real objects to assist in the presentation of visual and haptic information, resulting in video games that are integrated ...

In an era of digitalization, the relevance of programming in real-time development environments is constantly increasing. This also applies to the Unity Engine. Within the framework of a bachelor thesis, the first freely accessible Unity programming ...

ReWIND is a role-playing game (RPG) designed to enhance the emotion control of patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) over the feeling of excessive worry and fear by integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in a serious game. The goal of ...

While ostensibly meritocratic, our society functions on an imperceptible yet undeniable paradigm of privilege. Privilege is an unearned, unasked for advantage gained because of the way society views an aspect of an individual's identity, such as race, ...

Human-Computer Integration is an extension of the Human-Computer Interaction paradigm that explores systems in which the boundary between user and computer is blurred. We build on this and explore its intersection with the fields of biodata and playful ...

Human-Drone Interaction is a fast-growing subset of the field of Human-Computer Interaction as drones enable novel and interesting interactions in 3D space as they can be regarded as pixels in physical space. We examine the intersection of drones and ...

Research support that online multiplayer games build social capital and contribute to people’s well-being. Players build meaningful, strong relationships through games, resulting in complex communities, similar to traditional Online Social Networks (...

Enabling healthier online deliberation around issues of public concerns is an increasingly vital challenge in nowadays society. Two fundamental components of a healthier deliberation are: i. the capability of people to make sense of what they read, so ...

Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) studying STEM are underrepresented in STEM and subject to its “chilly” climate; it is unsurprising that BIWOC STEM students report weaker senses of belonging and higher rates of attrition. ...

Android smartphones have undergone various changes and, uniformity in design (both hardware and software) has become common in most phones. Yet, security and privacy issues persist and grow along with the evolution of smartphones. Recent research shows ...

The advent of larger machine learning (ML) models have improved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in various modeling tasks, ranging from computer vision to natural language. As ML models continue increasing in size, so does their respective energy ...

In this paper, two cornerstone game design and research models — the Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics framework and the magic circle — are revisited and inspected through a lens of user experience design. This suggests two aspects that are missing from ...

One of the most effective ways to learn a second language is to immerse oneself in it in the country where it is spoken. While this is not feasible for most language learners, language learning games may be able to replicate an immersive language ...

Explanations in Human-AI Interaction are communicated to human decision makers through interfaces. Yet, it is not clear what consequences the exact representation of such explanations as part of decision support systems (DSS) and working on machine ...

Military planners use “Operational Design” (OD) methods to develop an understanding of systems and relationships in complex operational environments. Here, we present Causeworks, a visual analytics application for OD teams to collaboratively build causal ...

Prior game researchers mostly focused on designing the ”macro” context which requires a decent proportion of time to engage and play, from which players may benefit. However, the demanding time and effort restrict playability during working hours. To ...

From sports to party games, almost every kind of game has been adapted into a digital video game format. While previous research has studied player motivations and experiences for certain categories of digital games, there has yet to be such a study on ...

Responsible conduct of research (RCR) is an essential skill for all researchers to develop, but training scientists to behave ethically is complex because it requires addressing both cognitive (i.e., conceptual knowledge and moral reasoning skills) and ...