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Engaged by boos and cheers: the effect of co-located game audiences on social player experience

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Dennis L. Kappen,

Pejman Mirza-Babaei,

Jens Johannsmeier,

Daniel Buckstein,

Lennart E. NackeAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '14: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play

Pages 151 - 160

https://doi.org/10.1145/2658537.2658687

Published: 19 October 2014 Publication History

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Little is currently known about the influence of co-located player audiences on gameplay experience. Social player experiences are important to understand in co-located gaming scenarios, because these experiences relate to player performance. Player-audience relationships have been studied before, but prior research focused on player attributes and typology. In our study, we investigated the effect of different co-located audience types (silent, positive, negative) and no audience on player experience. For the study, we contribute a video game specifically developed for two-player, co-located gameplay and findings from questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that both -- negative and positive audience activity -- drove players to become more engaged in the video game. In contrast, silent audiences made players feel unnerved and less engaged in gameplay. Our paper is the first to study of the relevance of co-located audience influence on player experience, which is important for understanding the design of co-located games.

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Engaged by boos and cheers: the effect of co-located game audiences on social player experience
1. Applied computing
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2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI PLAY '14: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play

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DOI:10.1145/2658537

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Lennart E. Nacke
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
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Queen's University, Canada

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