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Title:
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EVALUATING PLAYERS ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR THROUGH MOBILE DEVICE BASED SERIOUS GAMES |
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Author(s):
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Hanno Hildmann , Liz Boyle |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-77-5 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Serious Games, Profiling, Theory of Planned Behaviour, Propositional Logic |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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81 |
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Last Page:
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88 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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One of the noted shortcomings for serious games is the lack of guidelines or means to assess and evaluate the
performance of the player; one of the obvious drawbacks of using questionnaires when investigating human behaviour in
psychology is the subjective nature of introspective statements. This paper describes a formal language that can be used
to represent and evaluate players behaviour according to established guidelines from attitudinal research in psychology.
A mobile device based resource management game, Glasgow SoxWars, was designed to speicifcally challenge and
target the players attitudes and behaviours; Ajzens work on the Theory of Planned Behaviour forms the theoretical
background. By providing a formalism (adhering to guidelines for questionnaires set out by experts in behavioural
psychology) for the description and representation of behaviour (within the context of a serious game) we facilitate the
profiling, evaluation or assessment of the players behaviour that lives up to standards set out in the field of psychology. |
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