Year 2023
Back to topComprehending the Crypto-Curious: How Investors and Inexperienced Potential Investors Perceive and Practice Cryptocurrency Trading
Hilda Hadan, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, Lennart Nacke, and Ville Mäkelä. 2023. Comprehending the Crypto-Curious: How Investors and Inexperienced Potential Investors Perceive and Practice Cryptocurrency Trading. In International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. doi:10.1080/10447318.2023.2239556
Year 2021
Back to topInvestigating the effects of individual cognitive styles on collaborative gameplay
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2021. Investigating the effects of individual cognitive styles on collaborative gameplay. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 28, 4: 1-49. New York, NY, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/3445792
Revealing the hotspots of educational gamification: An umbrella review
Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally. 2021. Revealing the hotspots of educational gamification: An umbrella review. In Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef, Wang Yining, Maiga Chang, and Lennart Nacke. Eds. International Journal of Educational Research 109. International Journal of Educational Research. doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101832
Year 2020
Back to topCurioscape: A Curiosity-driven Escape Room Board Game
Joseph Tu and Ekaterina Durmanova. 2020. Curioscape: A Curiosity-driven Escape Room Board Game. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '20). New York, NY, USA. ACM, 94–97. doi:10.1145/3383668.3419925
Demystifying the First-Time Experience of Mobile Games: The Presence of a Tutorial Has a Positive Impact on Non-Expert Players’ Flow and Continuous-Use Intentions
Mario Passalacqua, Raphaël Morin, Sylvain Sénécal, Lennart Nacke, and Pierre-Majorique Léger. 2020. Demystifying the First-Time Experience of Mobile Games: The Presence of a Tutorial Has a Positive Impact on Non-Expert Players’ Flow and Continuous-Use Intentions. In Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 4, 3: 41. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. doi:10.3390/mti4030041
Development and validation of the player experience inventory: A scale to measure player experiences at the level of functional and psychosocial consequences
Vero Vanden Abeele, Katta Spiel, Lennart Nacke, Daniel Johnson, and Kathrin Gerling. 2020. Development and validation of the player experience inventory: A scale to measure player experiences at the level of functional and psychosocial consequences. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 135. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.102370
Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App
Marcela Bomfim, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Lennart Nacke, and James Wallace. 2020. Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '20. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376801
Game Atmosphere: Effects of Audiovisual Thematic Cohesion on Player Experience and Psychophysiology
Giovanni Ribeiro, Katja Rogers, Maximilian Altmeyer , Thomas Terkildsen, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Game Atmosphere: Effects of Audiovisual Thematic Cohesion on Player Experience and Psychophysiology. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '20). New York, NY, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/3410404.3414245
Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: Thematic Analysis of an Eight-Week Experimental Study
Lennart Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Dennis Kappen. 2020. Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: Thematic Analysis of an Eight-Week Experimental Study. In Frontiers in Computer Science 2: 44. Frontiers.
HexArcade: Predicting Hexad User Types By Using Gameful Applications
Maximilian Altmeyer , Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Antonio Krüger, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. HexArcade: Predicting Hexad User Types By Using Gameful Applications. In Proceedings of the the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2020). ACM. doi:10.1145/3410404.3414232
Imi Pono: Creating an Ethical Framework for User Experience Design
Laura Fong, Jenny Waycott, Aynur Kadir, Jet Gispen, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Imi Pono: Creating an Ethical Framework for User Experience Design. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi:10.1145/3334480.3375161
Keep Calm and Ride Along: Passenger Comfort and Anxiety as Physiological Responses to Autonomous Driving Styles
Nicole Dillen , Marco Ilievski, Edith Law, Lennart Nacke, Krzysztof Czarnecki, and Oliver Schneider. 2020. Keep Calm and Ride Along: Passenger Comfort and Anxiety as Physiological Responses to Autonomous Driving Styles. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376247
LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications
Kenny Fung. 2020. LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications. University of Waterloo. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16112
Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style
Mitchell Loewen, Christopher Burris, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style. In Frontiers in physiology 11.
Older Adults’ Motivation for Physical Activity Using Gamified Technology: An Eight-Week Experimental Study
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Older Adults’ Motivation for Physical Activity Using Gamified Technology: An Eight-Week Experimental Study. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50249-2_22
Personal Space in Play: Physical and Digital Boundaries in Large-Display Cooperative and Competitive Games
Rina Wehbe, Terence Dickson , Anastasia Kuzminykh, Lennart Nacke, and Edward Lank. 2020. Personal Space in Play: Physical and Digital Boundaries in Large-Display Cooperative and Competitive Games. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). New York, NY, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376319
Playing in the backstore: interface gamification increases warehousing workforce engagement
Mario Passalacqua, Pierre-Majorique Léger, Lennart Nacke, Marc Fredette, Élise Labonté-Lemoyne, Xinli Lin, Tony Caprioli, and Sylvain Sénécal. 2020. Playing in the backstore: interface gamification increases warehousing workforce engagement. In Industrial Management & Data Systems.. doi:10.1108/IMDS-08-2019-0458
Technology Facilitates Physical Activity Through Gamification: A Thematic Analysis of an 8-Week Study
Lennart Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Dennis Kappen. 2020. Technology Facilitates Physical Activity Through Gamification: A Thematic Analysis of an 8-Week Study. In Frontiers in Computer Science - Human-Media Interaction 2: 530309. Frontiers in Computer Science. doi:10.3389/fcomp.2020.530309
The Potential Disconnect between Time Perception and Immersion: Effects of Music on VR Player Experience
Katja Rogers, Maximillian Milo, Michael Weber, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. The Potential Disconnect between Time Perception and Immersion: Effects of Music on VR Player Experience. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '20). New York, NY, USA. ACM, 414–426. doi:10.1145/3410404.3414246
Validation of User Preferences and Effects of Personalized Gamification on Task Performance
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Validation of User Preferences and Effects of Personalized Gamification on Task Performance. In Frontiers in Computer Science 2: 29. Frontiers. doi:10.3389/fcomp.2020.00029
What is it Like to Be a Game?-Object Oriented Inquiry for Games Research, Design and Evaluation
Katta Spiel and Lennart Nacke. 2020. What is it Like to Be a Game?-Object Oriented Inquiry for Games Research, Design and Evaluation. In Frontiers in Computer Science 2: 18. Frontier. doi:10.3389/fcomp.2020.00018
Year 2019
Back to top" It Started as a Joke" On the Design of Idle Game
Katta Spiel, Sultan Alharthi, Andrew Cen, Jessica Hammer, Lennart Nacke, Phoebe Toups, and Tess Tanenbaum. 2019. " It Started as a Joke" On the Design of Idle Game. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. 495-508. doi:10.1145/3311350.3347180
“I don't fit into a single type”: A Trait Model and Scale of Game Playing Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Karina Arrambide, Giovanni Ribeiro, Andrew Cen, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. “I don't fit into a single type”: A Trait Model and Scale of Game Playing Preferences. In Proceedings of INTERACT 2019, LNCS 11747. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_23
A Pilot Study of a Digital Skill Tree in Gameful Education
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2019. A Pilot Study of a Digital Skill Tree in Gameful Education. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Gamification and Games for Learning - GamiLearn '19. Barcelona, Spain. CEUR-WS.org. Online: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2497/paper15.pdf
Biologically-Inspired Gameplay: Movement Algorithms for Artificially Intelligent (AI) Non-Player Characters (NPC)
Rina Wehbe, Giovanni Ribeiro, Kenny Fung, Lennart Nacke, and Edward Lank. 2019. Biologically-Inspired Gameplay: Movement Algorithms for Artificially Intelligent (AI) Non-Player Characters (NPC). In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2019. Kingston, ON, Canada. CHCCS. doi:10.20380/GI2019.28
Cross-Car, Multiplayer Games for Semi-Autonomous Driving
Matthew Lakier, Lennart Nacke, Takeo Igarashi, and Daniel Vogel. 2019. Cross-Car, Multiplayer Games for Semi-Autonomous Driving. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. 467-480. doi:10.1145/3311350.3347166
Crushed it!: Interactive Floor Demonstration
Rina Wehbe, Kai Bornemann, Benjamin Hatscher, Joseph Tu, Lisa Freiman Cormier, Christian Hansen, Edward Lank, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Crushed it!: Interactive Floor Demonstration. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '19. Glasgow, Scotland UK. ACM, INT014. doi:10.1145/3290607.3313279
Defining Gameful Experience as a Psychological State Caused by Gameplay: Replacing the Term ‘Gamefulness’ with Three Distinct Constructs
Richard Landers, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Dennis Kappen, Andrew Collmus, Elisa Mekler, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Defining Gameful Experience as a Psychological State Caused by Gameplay: Replacing the Term ‘Gamefulness’ with Three Distinct Constructs. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 127: 81-94. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.08.003
Do Cognitive Styles Influence Collective Sensemaking in Distributed Multiplayer Games?
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2019. Do Cognitive Styles Influence Collective Sensemaking in Distributed Multiplayer Games?. In Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Series. ACM. Online: https://ci.acm.org/2019/assets/proceedings/CI_2019_paper_35.pdf
Dynamic Personalization of Gameful Interactive Systems
Gustavo Fortes Tondello. 2019. Dynamic Personalization of Gameful Interactive Systems. Waterloo, ON, Canada. University of Waterloo. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14807
Empirical Validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad Scale in English and Spanish
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Alberto Mora, Andrzej Marczewski, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Empirical Validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad Scale in English and Spanish. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 127: 95-111. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.10.002
Gameful Design Heuristics: A Gamification Inspection Tool
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Dennis Kappen, Marim Ganaba, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Gameful Design Heuristics: A Gamification Inspection Tool. In Human-Computer Interaction. Perspectives on Design. Proceedings of HCI International 2019. LNCS 11566. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22646-6_16
How to Write CHI Papers (Third Edition)
Lennart Nacke. 2019. How to Write CHI Papers (Third Edition). In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '19. Glasgow, Scotland UK. ACM, C05. doi:10.1145/3290607.3298817
Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2019: 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference
Panayiotis Zaphiris, Marco Winckler, Helen Petrie, Lennart Nacke, Fernando Loizides, and David Lamas. 2019. Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2019: 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference. Springer Nature., 2-6. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1
Interactive Narratives in Games: Understanding Player Agency and Experience
Karina Arrambide. 2019. Interactive Narratives in Games: Understanding Player Agency and Experience. CHI PLAY '19, 1-5. doi:10.1145/3341215.3356334
Motivational Affordances for Older Adults’ Physical Activity Technology: An Expert Evaluation
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Motivational Affordances for Older Adults’ Physical Activity Technology: An Expert Evaluation. In Human-Computer Interaction. Perspectives on Design. Proceedings of HCI International 2019. LNCS 11566. Springer.
Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Exergames: A Systematic Review
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Exergames: A Systematic Review. In International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 35, 2: 140-167. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1080/10447318.2018.1441253
Player Characteristics and Video Game Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Player Characteristics and Video Game Preferences. In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '19. Barcelona, Spain. ACM. doi:10.1145/3311350.3347185
The Development of" Orbit" The Collaborative BCI Game for Children with AD (H) D
Karina Arrambide, Lisa Freiman Cormier, Rina Wehbe, Lennart Nacke, Mareike Gabele, Sebastian Wagner, and Christian Hansen. 2019. The Development of" Orbit" The Collaborative BCI Game for Children with AD (H) D. In Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. 341-348. doi:10.1145/3341215.3356301
The Impact of Using a Gamified Interface on Engagement in a Warehousing Management Task: A NeuroIS Research Proposal
Mario Passalacqua, Pierre-Majorique Léger, Sylvain Sénécal, Marc Fredette, Lennart Nacke, Xinli Lin, Karine Grande, Nicolas Robitaille, Liza Ziemer, and Tony Caprioli. 2019. The Impact of Using a Gamified Interface on Engagement in a Warehousing Management Task: A NeuroIS Research Proposal. In Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 29. Cham. Springer, 187-194. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_23
The quest for a better tailoring of gameful design: An analysis of player type preferences
Alberto Mora, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Laura Calvet, Carina González, Joan Arnedo-Moreno, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. The quest for a better tailoring of gameful design: An analysis of player type preferences. In Proceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Interacción '19. ACM. doi:10.1145/3335595.3335625
User Experience (UX) Research in Games
Lennart Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Anders Drachen. 2019. User Experience (UX) Research in Games. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '19. Glasgow, Scotland UK. ACM, C25. doi:10.1145/3290607.3298826
Year 2018
Back to topA Theory of Gamification Principles Through Goal-Setting Theory
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Hardy Premsukh, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. A Theory of Gamification Principles Through Goal-Setting Theory. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). IEEE, 1118-1127. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50027
Effect of personalized gameful design on student engagement
Alberto Mora, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Lennart Nacke, and Joan Arnedo-Moreno. 2018. Effect of personalized gameful design on student engagement. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - EDUCON 2018. Tenerife, Spain. IEEE.
Exploring the Role of Non-Player Characters and Gender in Player Identification
Katja Rogers, Maria Aufheimer, Michael Weber, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Exploring the Role of Non-Player Characters and Gender in Player Identification. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts. Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ACM, 271-283. doi:10.1145/3270316.3273041
Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities
Lennart Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Katta Spiel, Phoebe Toups, and Katherine Isbister. 2018. Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '18. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, SIG11. doi:10.1145/3170427.3185360
Games User Research
Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke (Eds). 2018. Games User Research. New York, NY. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198794844.001.0001
Games User Research Methods
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Lennart Nacke, and Anders Drachen. 2018. Games User Research Methods. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts - CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts. Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ACM, 1-4. doi:10.1145/3270316.3271548
Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). IEEE, 1207-1216. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50036
Gamification: Tools and Techniques for Motivating Users
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Gamification: Tools and Techniques for Motivating Users. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '18. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, C25. doi:10.1145/3170427.3170662
How to Write CHI Papers: Second Edition
Lennart Nacke. 2018. How to Write CHI Papers: Second Edition. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '18. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, C05. doi:10.1145/3170427.3170653
Information Visualisation, Gamification and Immersive Technologies in Participatory Planning
Nektarios Christodoulou, Andreas Papallas, Zona Kostic, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Information Visualisation, Gamification and Immersive Technologies in Participatory Planning. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '18. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, SIG12. doi:10.1145/3170427.3185363
Introduction to biometric measures for Games User Research
Lennart Nacke. 2018. Introduction to biometric measures for Games User Research. In Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. Eds. Games User Research. New York, NY. Oxford University Press, 281-299. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198794844.003.0016
Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Sultan Alharthi, Ruth Castillo, Ahmed Khalaf, Phoebe Toups, Igor Dolgov, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 314. doi:10.1145/3173574.3173888
KickAR: Exploring Game Balancing Through Boosts and Handicaps in Augmented Reality Table Football
Katja Rogers, Mark Colley, David Lehr, Julian Frommel, Marcel Walch, Lennart Nacke, and Michael Weber. 2018. KickAR: Exploring Game Balancing Through Boosts and Handicaps in Augmented Reality Table Football. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 166. doi:10.1145/3173574.3173740
Online-only friends, real-life friends or strangers? Differential associations with passion and social capital in video game play
Ryan Perry, Anders Drachen, Allison Kearney, Simone Kriglstein, Lennart Nacke, Rafet Sifa, Guenter Wallner, and Daniel Johnson. 2018. Online-only friends, real-life friends or strangers? Differential associations with passion and social capital in video game play. In Computers in Human Behavior 79: 202-210. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.032
Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types
Rita Orji, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 435. doi:10.1145/3173574.3174009
Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations
Sultan Alharthi, Nicolas LaLone, Ahmed Khalaf, Ruth Castillo, Lennart Nacke, Igor Dolgov, and Phoebe Toups. 2018. Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations. In 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018). Rochester, NY, USA.
Toward Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Styles on Collaboration in Multiplayer Games
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2018. Toward Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Styles on Collaboration in Multiplayer Games. In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '18. Jersey City, NJ, USA. ACM, 169-172. doi:10.1145/3272973.3274047
Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Deltcho Valtchanov, Adrian Reetz, Rina Wehbe, Rita Orji, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences. In International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 34, 8: 732-748. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1080/10447318.2018.1461765
Towards Customizing Gameful Systems by Gameful Design Elements
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Towards Customizing Gameful Systems by Gameful Design Elements. In Third International Workshop on Personalization in Persuasive Technology. Waterloo, ON, Canada. CEUR-WS.org, 102-110. Online: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2089/11_Tondello.pdf
Towards the Visual Design of Non-Player Characters for Narrative Roles
Katja Rogers, Maria Aufheimer, Michael Weber, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Towards the Visual Design of Non-Player Characters for Narrative Roles. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2018. Toronto, ON Canada. 154-161. doi:10.20380/GI2018.21
Vanishing Importance: Studying Immersive Effects of Game Audio Perception on Player Experiences in Virtual Reality
Katja Rogers, Giovanni Ribeiro, Rina Wehbe, Michael Weber, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Vanishing Importance: Studying Immersive Effects of Game Audio Perception on Player Experiences in Virtual Reality. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 328. doi:10.1145/3173574.3173902
Year 2017
Back to topA comparison of system-controlled and user-controlled personalization approaches
Rita Orji, Kiemute Oyibo, and Gustavo Fortes Tondello. 2017. A comparison of system-controlled and user-controlled personalization approaches. In Adjunct publication of the 25th conference on user modeling, adaptation and personalization: 413-418. New York, NY, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/3099023.3099116
A Framework and Taxonomy of Videogame Playing Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, Rita Orji, Giovanni Ribeiro, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. A Framework and Taxonomy of Videogame Playing Preferences. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM, 329-340 . doi:10.1145/3116595.3116629
Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification
Dennis Kappen. 2017. Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification. Oshawa, ON, Canada. University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10155/881
Applying Gameful Design Heuristics
Gustavo Fortes Tondello and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Applying Gameful Design Heuristics. In Proceeding of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2017. Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 1209-1212. doi:10.1145/3027063.3027116
CLEVER: A Gameful Enterprise Learning System
Dominic Elm, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. CLEVER: A Gameful Enterprise Learning System. In 1st International Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning. Tenerife, Spain. ULL. Online: https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4783
Curiously Motivated: Profiling Curiosity with Self-Reports and Behaviour Metrics in the Game “Destiny”
Mike Schäkermann, Giovanni Ribeiro, Guenter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Daniel Johnson, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Curiously Motivated: Profiling Curiosity with Self-Reports and Behaviour Metrics in the Game “Destiny”. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM, 143-156 . doi:10.1145/3116595.3116603
Defining Gamification Video
Melissa Stocco, Marim Ganaba, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Defining Gamification Video. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 472. doi:10.1145/3027063.3049793
Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Alberto Mora, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM, 129-142. doi:10.1145/3116595.3116627
Exploring the Potential of Game Audio for Wellbeing
Katja Rogers and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Exploring the Potential of Game Audio for Wellbeing. In Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing. Amsterdam, Netherlands. CEUR-WS.org. Online: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2055/paper8.pdf
Foreword: 1st Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning
Joan Arnedo-Moreno, González González , Carina Soledad, Alberto Mora, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Foreword: 1st Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning. Online: https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4766
From Joysticks to Pokémon Go: Games and Play Research in SIGCHI
Lennart Nacke, Phoebe Toups, and Daniel Johnson. 2017. From Joysticks to Pokémon Go: Games and Play Research in SIGCHI. In Proceeding of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2017. Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 1330-1333. doi:10.1145/3027063.3049284
Games User Research and Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction
Lennart Nacke. 2017. Games User Research and Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction. In XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 24, 1: 48-51. ACM. doi:10.1145/3123748
Gamification through the Application of Motivational Affordances for Physical Activity Technology
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Gamification through the Application of Motivational Affordances for Physical Activity Technology. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM. doi:10.1145/3116595.3116604
GazeTap: towards hands-free interaction in the operating room
Benjamin Hatscher, Maria Luz, Lennart Nacke, Norbert Elkmann, Veit Müller, and Christian Hansen. 2017. GazeTap: towards hands-free interaction in the operating room. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI '17. Glasgow, UK. ACM, 243-251 . doi:10.1145/3136755.3136759
How Multidisciplinary is Gamification Research? Results from a Scoping Review
Nicholas O'Donnel, Dennis Kappen, Zachary Fitz-Walter, Sebastian Deterding, Lennart Nacke, and Daniel Johnson. 2017. How Multidisciplinary is Gamification Research? Results from a Scoping Review. In Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. ACM, 445–452. doi:10.1145/3130859.3131412
How to Write and Review CHI Papers
Lennart Nacke. 2017. How to Write and Review CHI Papers. In Proceeding of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2017. Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 1228-1231. doi:10.1145/3027063.3027097
Left Them 4 Dead: Perception of Humans versus Non-Player Character Teammates in Cooperative Gameplay
Rina Wehbe, Edward Lank, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Left Them 4 Dead: Perception of Humans versus Non-Player Character Teammates in Cooperative Gameplay. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Edinburgh, UK. ACM, 403-415. doi:10.1145/3064663.3064712
Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rita Orji, Kellie Vella, Daniel Johnson, Marierose van Dooren, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM. doi:10.1145/3130859.3131442
Recommender Systems for Personalized Gamification
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rita Orji, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Recommender Systems for Personalized Gamification. In Proceedings of UMAP’17 Adjunct. Bratislava, Slovakia. ACM. doi:10.1145/3099023.3099114
Testing Incremental Difficulty Design in Platformer Games
Rina Wehbe, Elisa Mekler, Mike Schäkermann, Edward Lank, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Testing Incremental Difficulty Design in Platformer Games. In Proceeding of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2017. Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 5109-5113. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025697
The Adoption of Physiological Measures as an Evaluation Tool in UX
Vanessa Georges, François Courtemanche, Sylvain Sénécal, Pierre-Majorique Léger, Lennart Nacke, and Romain Pourchon. 2017. The Adoption of Physiological Measures as an Evaluation Tool in UX. In Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah and Chuan-Hoo Tan. Eds. HCI in Business, Government and Organizations. Interacting with Information Systems. HCIBGO 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10293. Cham. Springer, 90-98. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58481-2_8
The Impact of Health-Related User Interface Sounds on Player Experience
James Robb, Tom Garner, Karen Collins, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. The Impact of Health-Related User Interface Sounds on Player Experience. In Simulation & Gaming 48, 3: 402-427. SAGE. doi:10.1177/1046878116688236
The maturing of gamification research
Lennart Nacke and Sebastian Deterding. 2017. The maturing of gamification research. In Computers in Human Behavior 71: 450-454. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.062
Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems
Rita Orji, Lennart Nacke, and Chrysanne Di Marco. 2017. Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems. In Proceeding of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2017. Denver, CO, USA. ACM, 1015-1027. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025577
Using technology to boost employee wellbeing? How gamification can help or hinder results
Ekaterina Pogrebtsova, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Hardy Premsukh, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Using technology to boost employee wellbeing? How gamification can help or hinder results. In Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing. Amsterdam, Netherlands. CEUR-WS.org. Online: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2055/paper5.pdf
Year 2016
Back to top"It was Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Candlestick": Using Artifacts to Create An Alternate Reality Game-The Unworkshop
Alina Striner, Lennart Nacke, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Phoebe Toups, Carlea Holl-Jensen, and Heather Kelley. 2016. "It was Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Candlestick": Using Artifacts to Create An Alternate Reality Game-The Unworkshop. In arXiv:1804.08737 [cs.HC]. arXiv. Online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08737
“The Collecting Itself Feels Good”: Towards Collection Interfaces for Digital Game Objects
Phoebe Toups, Nicole Crenshaw, Rina Wehbe, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. “The Collecting Itself Feels Good”: Towards Collection Interfaces for Digital Game Objects. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2967934.2968088
ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety
Rina Wehbe, Diane Watson, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Marim Ganaba, Melissa Stocco, Alvin Lee, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Extended Abstracts - CHI PLAY EA '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2968120.2971804
ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health
Rina Wehbe, Diane Watson, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. ABOVE WATER: Extending the Play Space for Health. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces - ISS '16. Niagara Falls, ON, Canada. ACM. doi:10.1145/2992154.2996882
Biometrics in a Data Driven World: Trends, Technologies, and Challenges
Lennart Nacke and Regan Mandryk. 2016. Biometrics in a Data Driven World: Trends, Technologies, and Challenges. CRC Press, 197-229.
CHI PLAYGUE: A Mobile Conference Networking Game
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. CHI PLAYGUE: A Mobile Conference Networking Game. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces - ISS '16. Niagara Falls, ON, Canada. ACM. doi:10.1145/2992154.2996870
CLEVER: A Trivia and Strategy Game for Enterprise Knowledge Learning
Dominic Elm, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Dennis Kappen, Marim Ganaba, Melissa Stocco, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. CLEVER: A Trivia and Strategy Game for Enterprise Knowledge Learning. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Extended Abstracts - CHI PLAY EA '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2968120.2971805
CLEVER: Gamification and Enterprise Knowledge Learning
Dominic Elm, Dennis Kappen, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. CLEVER: Gamification and Enterprise Knowledge Learning. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Extended Abstracts - CHI PLAY EA '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2968120.2987745
Design and preliminary validation of the player experience inventory
Vero Vanden Abeele, Lennart Nacke, Elisa Mekler, and Daniel Johnson. 2016. Design and preliminary validation of the player experience inventory. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Ab.. ACM, 335–341. doi:10.1145/2968120.2987744
Design Strategies for Gamified Physical Activity Applications for Older Adults
Dennis Kappen, Lennart Nacke, Kathrin Gerling, and Lia Tsotos. 2016. Design Strategies for Gamified Physical Activity Applications for Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE, 1309-1318. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2016.166
Games of the Heart and Mind: Affective Ludology and the Development of Emotionally Aware Player Experiences.
Pedro Nogueira, Samantha Stahlke, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. Games of the Heart and Mind: Affective Ludology and the Development of Emotionally Aware Player Experiences.. McFarland & Company, Inc., 105-125.
Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Dennis Kappen, Elisa Mekler, Marim Ganaba, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Extended Ebstracts - CHI PLAY EA '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2968120.2987729
Investigating the Impact of Cooperative Communication Mechanics on Player Performance in Portal 2
Deepika Vaddi, Phoebe Toups, Igor Dolgov, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. Investigating the Impact of Cooperative Communication Mechanics on Player Performance in Portal 2. In Proceedings of Graphics Interfaces 2016. Victoria, BC, Canada. ACM.
Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations
Lennart Nacke, Christiane Moser, Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Andrea Abney, and Zhu (Cole) Zhenyu. 2016. Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - CHI EA '16. San Jose, CA, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2851581.2856504
Player Experience
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Christiane Moser, Lennart Nacke, and Josef Wiemeyer. 2016. Player Experience. Springer International Publishing, 243-271. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40612-1_9
The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, Lisa Diamond, Marc Busch, Andrzej Marczewski, and Lennart Nacke. 2016. The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale. In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '16. Austin, TX, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/2967934.2968082
Year 2015
Back to top2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Lennart Nacke, Regina Bernhaupt, Paul Cairns, and Anna L Cox. 2015. 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. SIGCHI. doi:10.1145/2793107
Actionable Inexpensive Games User Research.
Lennart Nacke, Steve Engels, and Pejman Mirza-Babaei. 2015. Actionable Inexpensive Games User Research.. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2461–2462. doi:10.1145/2702613.2706681
All about that Base: Differing Player Experiences in Video Game Genres and the Unique Case of MOBA Games
Daniel Johnson, Lennart Nacke, and Peta Wyeth. 2015. All about that Base: Differing Player Experiences in Video Game Genres and the Unique Case of MOBA Games. In Proceedings of CHI 2015. Seoul, South Korea. ACM, 2265-2274. doi:10.1145/2702123.2702447
CHI PLAYGUE: A Networking Game of Emergent Sociality
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, Samantha Stahlke, Amanda Leo, Rylan Koroluk, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. CHI PLAYGUE: A Networking Game of Emergent Sociality. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2015. London, United Kingdom. ACM. doi:10.1145/2793107.2810265
Collaborative Multi-Touch Clinical Handover System for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, Rina Wehbe, Edward Pugh, Lennart Nacke, Carolyn McGregor, and Andrew James. 2015. Collaborative Multi-Touch Clinical Handover System for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In Electronic Journal of Health Informatics 9, 1: 5. eJHI.
Data Synchronization in Games User Research
Rina Wehbe and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Data Synchronization in Games User Research. In GUR Tool Design Jam. London, UK. ACM.
Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games.
David Geerts, Lennart Nacke, Effie Lai-Chong Law, Panayiotis Zaphiris, and Georgios Christou. 2015. Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games. . Computers in Human Behavior., 515-566. doi:10.1145/2468356.2479656
EEG Emotion Recognition in Videogane Play
Jose Rodriguez. 2015. EEG Emotion Recognition in Videogane Play. Online: https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/224322664/Masters_Thesis_Jose_Rodriguez.pdf
Games User Research and Physiological Game Evaluation
Lennart Nacke. 2015. Games User Research and Physiological Game Evaluation. In Regina Bernhaupt. Eds. Game User Experience Evaluation. Springer International Publishing, 63-86. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15985-0_4
Gamifying Research: Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges, Ethics
Sebastian Deterding, Alessandro Canossa, Casper Harteveld, Seth Cooper, Lennart Nacke, and Jennifer Whitson. 2015. Gamifying Research: Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges, Ethics. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2421–2424. doi:10.1145/2702613.2702646
Modelling human emotion in interactive environments: Physiological ensemble and grounded approaches for synthetic agents
Pedro Nogueira, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Modelling human emotion in interactive environments: Physiological ensemble and grounded approaches for synthetic agents. In Web intelligence 13, 3: 195-214. IOS Press. doi:10.3233/WEB-150321
Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions
Marc Busch, Elke Mattheiss, Rita Orji, Andrzej Marczewski, Wolfgang Hochleitner, Michael Lankes, Lennart Nacke, and Manfred Tscheligi. 2015. Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '15. London, UK. ACM, 811-816. doi:10.1145/2793107.2810260
The HEXAD Gamification User Types Questionnaire : Background and Development Process
Lisa Diamond, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Andrzej Marczewski, Lennart Nacke, and Manfred Tscheligi. 2015. The HEXAD Gamification User Types Questionnaire : Background and Development Process. In Workshop on Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions. London, UK. ACM.
Toward Understanding Why Players Value In-Game Collections
Phoebe Toups, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, Lennart Nacke, and Nicole Crenshaw. 2015. Toward Understanding Why Players Value In-Game Collections. In Workshop on Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions. London, UK. ACM.
Towards a Personalized Playful Digital Wellness Assistant
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Towards a Personalized Playful Digital Wellness Assistant. In Workshop on Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions. London, UK. ACM.
Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay
Rina Wehbe and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2015. London, United Kingdom. ACM. doi:2793107.2810312
Understanding Player Attitudes Towards Digital Game Objects
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Rina Wehbe, Phoebe Toups, Lennart Nacke, and Nicole Crenshaw. 2015. Understanding Player Attitudes Towards Digital Game Objects. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2015. London, United Kingdom. ACM. doi:10.1145/2793107.2810292
Validating Test Chambers to Study Cooperative Communication Mechanics in Portal 2
Deepika Vaddi, Rina Wehbe, Phoebe Toups, Samantha Stahlke, Rylan Koroluk, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Validating Test Chambers to Study Cooperative Communication Mechanics in Portal 2. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2015. London, United Kingdom. ACM.
Vanishing scares: biofeedback modulation of affective player experiences in a procedural horror game
Pedro Nogueira, Vasco Torres, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2015. Vanishing scares: biofeedback modulation of affective player experiences in a procedural horror game. In Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 10, 1: 31-62. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces.
Year 2014
Back to topBrainHex: A Neurobiological Gamer Typology Survey
Lennart Nacke, Chris Bateman, and Regan Mandryk. 2014. BrainHex: A Neurobiological Gamer Typology Survey. In Entertainment Computing 5, 1: 55-62. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2013.06.002
Design guidelines for Gamifying reading applications
Rina Wehbe, James Robb, Jessica Clarke, João Costa, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Design guidelines for Gamifying reading applications. In 2014 IEEE Games Media Entertainment: 1-4. Toronto, ON, Canada. IEEE. doi:10.1109/GEM.2014.7405433
Developing Iconic and Semi-Iconic Game Controllers
Lennart Nacke, João Costa, Dennis Kappen, James Robb, and Daniel Buckstein. 2014. Developing Iconic and Semi-Iconic Game Controllers. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 435-436. doi:10.1145/2658537.2661327
Engaged by Boos and Cheers: The Effect of Co-Located Game Audiences on Social Player Experience
Dennis Kappen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Jens Johannsmeier, Daniel Buckstein, James Robb, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Engaged by Boos and Cheers: The Effect of Co-Located Game Audiences on Social Player Experience. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 151-160. doi:10.1145/2658537.2658687
Evaluating social and cognitive effects of video games using electroencephalography
Rina Wehbe. 2014. Evaluating social and cognitive effects of video games using electroencephalography. UOIT. Online: https://ir.library.dc-uoit.ca/handle/10155/460
First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play.
T. C. Nicholas Graham, Lennart Nacke, Regan Mandryk, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller. 2014. First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play.. SIGCHI. doi:proceedings/10.1145/2658537
Fuzzy Affective Player Models: A Physiology-Based Hierarchical Clustering Method
Pedro Nogueira, Rúben Aguiar, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Fuzzy Affective Player Models: A Physiology-Based Hierarchical Clustering Method. In Proceedings of AIIDE 2014. Raleigh, NC, United States. AAAI, 132-138.
Games and Entertainment Community SIG: Reaching Beyond CHI
Lennart Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Heather Desurvire, and Regina Bernhaupt. 2014. Games and Entertainment Community SIG: Reaching Beyond CHI. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 1123-1126. doi:10.1145/2559206.2559216
Introducing the Biometric Storyboards Tool for Games User Research
Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Introducing the Biometric Storyboards Tool for Games User Research. In Proceedings of IEEE GEM 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. IEEE, 1-7. doi:10.1109/GEM.2014.7048098
Physiological Acrophobia Evaluation Through In Vivo Exposure in a VR CAVE
João Costa, James Robb, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Physiological Acrophobia Evaluation Through In Vivo Exposure in a VR CAVE. In Proceedings of IEEE GEM 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. IEEE, 1-4. doi:10.1109/GEM.2014.7047969
Player Experience: Mixed Methods and Reporting Results
Veronica Zammitto, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Ian Livingston, Marina Kobayashi, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Player Experience: Mixed Methods and Reporting Results. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 147-150. doi:10.1145/2559206.2559239
Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game
Lennart Nacke, Matthias Klauser, and Paul Prescod. 2014. Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game. In Proceedings of HCI Korea 2014. Seoul, Republic of Korea. Hanbit Media, Inc., 180-187.
Synchronous Visualization of Video and Psychophysiological User Data
João Costa and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Synchronous Visualization of Video and Psychophysiological User Data. Online: https://joaopccosta.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/chigur2014_submission_17.pdf
The Edge of Glory: The Relationship Between Metacritic Scores and Player Experience
Daniel Johnson, Christopher N. Watling, John Gardner, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. The Edge of Glory: The Relationship Between Metacritic Scores and Player Experience. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 141-150. doi:10.1145/2658537.2658694
Understanding difficulty, your brain and challenge
Rina Wehbe. 2014. Understanding difficulty, your brain and challenge. In Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play (CHI PLAY '14). New York, NY, USA. ACM, 303-306. doi:10.1145/2658537.2659014
Understanding Expectations with Multiple Controllers in an Augmented Reality Videogame
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Nathan Gale, João Costa, Lennart Nacke, and Daniel Johnson. 2014. Understanding Expectations with Multiple Controllers in an Augmented Reality Videogame. In Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 201-206. doi:10.1145/2658537.2658705
Unified Visualization of Quantitative and Qualitative Playtesting Data
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Günter Wallner, Graham McAllister, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. Unified Visualization of Quantitative and Qualitative Playtesting Data. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2014. Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, 1363-1368. doi:10.1145/2559206.2581224
User Research for 3D Display Settings with EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry
Rina Wehbe, Andrew Hogue, Christopher Zerebecki, Saad Khattak, and Lennart Nacke. 2014. User Research for 3D Display Settings with EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry. Online: https://rinawehbe.ca/wp-content/uploads/GUR-Workshop-Rina-Submission-FINAL-LEN.pdf
Year 2013
Back to topA Hybrid Approach at Emotional State Detection: Merging Theoretical Models of Emotion with Data-Driven Statistical Classifiers
Pedro Nogueira, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. A Hybrid Approach at Emotional State Detection: Merging Theoretical Models of Emotion with Data-Driven Statistical Classifiers. In Proceedings of WI-IAT 2013. Atlanta, GA, United States. IEEE, 253-260. doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2013.117
A Regression-Based Method for Lightweight Emotional State Detection in Interactive Environments
Pedro Nogueira, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. A Regression-Based Method for Lightweight Emotional State Detection in Interactive Environments. In XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA) 2013. Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
An Introduction to EEG Analysis Techniques and Brain-Computer Interfaces for Games User Researchers
Rina Wehbe and Lennart Nacke. 2013. An Introduction to EEG Analysis Techniques and Brain-Computer Interfaces for Games User Researchers. In Proceedings of DIGRA 2013. Atlanta, GA, United States. DiGRA, 1-16.
An Introduction to Physiological Player Metrics for Evaluating Games
Lennart Nacke. 2013. An Introduction to Physiological Player Metrics for Evaluating Games. In Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen, and Magy Seif El-Nasr. Eds. Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data. Springer London, 585-619. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-4769-5_26
Assessing User Preference of Video Game Controller Button Settings
William Ellick, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Sharon Wood, Duncan Smith, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Assessing User Preference of Video Game Controller Button Settings. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 1107-1112. doi:10.1145/2468356.2468554
Contextual Influences on Mobile Player Experience--A Game User Experience Model
Stephan Engl and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Contextual Influences on Mobile Player Experience--A Game User Experience Model. In Entertainment Computing 4, 1: 83-91. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2012.06.001
Cycloshoot: Exergaming, Heart Rate, and User Experience
Dennis Kappen and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Cycloshoot: Exergaming, Heart Rate, and User Experience. Online: https://www.academia.edu/4780311/CYCLOSHOOT_Exergaming_Heart_Rate_and_User_Experience
Deconstructing 'Gamified' Task-Management Applications
Dennis Kappen, Jens Johannsmeier, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Deconstructing 'Gamified' Task-Management Applications. In Proceedings of Gamification 2013. Stratford, ON, Canada. ACM, 139-142.
Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games
Georgios Christou, Effie Lai-Chong Law, David Geerts, Lennart Nacke, and Panayiotis Zaphiris. 2013. Designing and Evaluating Sociability in Online Video Games. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 3239-3242. doi:10.1145/2468356.2479656
Designing Gamification: Creating Gameful and Playful Experiences
Sebastian Deterding, Staffan Björk, Lennart Nacke, Dan Dixon, and Elizabeth Lawley. 2013. Designing Gamification: Creating Gameful and Playful Experiences. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 3263-3266. doi:10.1145/2468356.2479662
EEG-Based Assessment of Video and In-Game Learning
Rina Wehbe, Dennis Kappen, David Rojas, Matthias Klauser, Bill Kapralos, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. EEG-Based Assessment of Video and In-Game Learning. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 667-672. doi:10.1145/2468356.2468474
Exploring Social Interaction in Co-Located Multiplayer Games
Dennis Kappen, John Gregory, Daniel Stepchenko, Rina Wehbe, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Exploring Social Interaction in Co-Located Multiplayer Games. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 1119-1124. doi:10.1145/2468356.2468556
Games User Research using EEG Techniques.
Rina Wehbe and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Games User Research using EEG Techniques..
Games User Research: Practice, Methods, and Applications
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Veronica Zammitto, Joerg Niesenhaus, Mirweis Sangin, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Games User Research: Practice, Methods, and Applications. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2013. Paris, France. ACM, 3219-3222. doi:10.1145/2468356.2479651
Gamification 2013: Gameful Design, Research, and Applications.
Neil Randall, Kevin Harrigan, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Gamification 2013: Gameful Design, Research, and Applications.. ACM. doi:10.1145/2583008
Guided Emotional State Regulation: Understanding and Shaping Players' Affective Experiences in Digital Games
Pedro Nogueira, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Guided Emotional State Regulation: Understanding and Shaping Players' Affective Experiences in Digital Games. In Proceedings of AIIDE 2009. Palo Alto, CA, United States. 51-57.
How Does It Play Better? Exploring User Testing and Biometric Storyboards in Games User Research
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Lennart Nacke, John Gregory, Nick Collins, and Geraldine Fitzpatrick. 2013. How Does It Play Better? Exploring User Testing and Biometric Storyboards in Games User Research. In Proceedings of CHI 2012. Paris, France. ACM, 1499-1508. doi:10.1145/2470654.2466200
Introducing a Biometric Storyboards Tool for Games User Research
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Lennart Nacke, and John Gregory. 2013. Introducing a Biometric Storyboards Tool for Games User Research. Toronto, ON, Canada. IEEE. doi:10.1109/GEM.2014.7048098
Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game
Lennart Nacke, Matthias Klauser, and Paul Prescod. 2013. Social Player Analytics in a Facebook Health Game. In 한국 HCI 학회 학술대회 (2014): 180-187. Online: http://hcigames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Social-Player-Analytics-in-a-Facebook-Health-Game.pdf
Storyboarding for Games User Research
Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Storyboarding for Games User Research. Online: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/186514/storyboarding_for_games_user_.php
The Effect of Sound on Visual Fidelity Perception in Stereoscopic 3-D
David Rojas, Bill Kapralos, Andrew Hogue, Karen Collins, Lennart Nacke, Sayra Cristancho, Cristina Conati, and Adam Dubrowski. 2013. The Effect of Sound on Visual Fidelity Perception in Stereoscopic 3-D. In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 43, 6: 1572-1583. IEEE. doi:10.1109/TCYB.2013.2269712
The Kaleidoscope of Effective Gamification: Deconstructing Gamification in Business Applications
Dennis Kappen and Lennart Nacke. 2013. The Kaleidoscope of Effective Gamification: Deconstructing Gamification in Business Applications. In Proceedings of Gamification 2013. Stratford, ON, Canada. ACM, 119-122.
Time's Up: Studying Leaderboards for Engaging Punctual Behaviour
João Costa, Rina Wehbe, James Robb, and Lennart Nacke. 2013. Time's Up: Studying Leaderboards for Engaging Punctual Behaviour. In Proceedings of Gamification 2013. Stratford, ON, Canada. ACM, 26-33.
Year 2012
Back to top"I'm Just Here to Play Games": Social Dynamics and Sociality in an Online Game Site
Gregor McEwan, Carl Gutwin, Regan Mandryk, and Lennart Nacke. 2012. "I'm Just Here to Play Games": Social Dynamics and Sociality in an Online Game Site. In Proceedings of CSCW 2012. Seattle, WA, United States. ACM, 549-558. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145289
Analysing Social Metrics in an Online Game Site
Gregor McEwan, Carl Gutwin, Regan Mandryk, and Lennart Nacke. 2012. Analysing Social Metrics in an Online Game Site. In Proceedings of GRAND 2012. Montréal, QC, Canada.
Biometric Storyboards: An Industry-Friendly Method for Evaluating Affect and User Experience in Games
Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Lennart Nacke. 2012. Biometric Storyboards: An Industry-Friendly Method for Evaluating Affect and User Experience in Games. Online: http://acagamic.com/wp-publications/mirzabiometric/
Biometric Storyboards: Visualising Game User Research Data
Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Lennart Nacke, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Gareth White, Graham McAllister, and Nick Collins. 2012. Biometric Storyboards: Visualising Game User Research Data. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2012. Austin, TX, United States. ACM, 2315-2320. doi:10.1145/2212776.2223795
CycloShoot: A first-person shooter fitness game on a bicycle
Matthias Klauser, Daniel Stepchenko , Pejman Mirza-Babaei, and Lennart Nacke. 2012. CycloShoot: A first-person shooter fitness game on a bicycle. Online: https://www.academia.edu/6177666/CycloShoot_A_first_person_shooter_fitness_game_on_a_bicycle
Feedback-Based Gameplay Metrics: Measuring Player Experience via Automatic Visual Analysis
Raphaël Marczak, Jasper van Vught, Gareth Schott, and Lennart Nacke. 2012. Feedback-Based Gameplay Metrics: Measuring Player Experience via Automatic Visual Analysis. In Proceedings of ACM IE 2012. Auckland, New Zealand. ACM, 6. doi:10.1145/2336727.2336733
Flow in Games: Proposing a Flow Experience Model
Lennart Nacke. 2012. Flow in Games: Proposing a Flow Experience Model. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Conceptualising, Operationalising and Measuring the Player Experience in Videogames at Fun and Games 2012. Toulouse, France. ACM, 104-108.
Full-Body Motion-Based Game Interaction for Older Adults
Kathrin Gerling, Ian Livingston, Lennart Nacke, and Regan Mandryk. 2012. Full-Body Motion-Based Game Interaction for Older Adults. In Proceedings of CHI 2012. Austin, TX, United States. ACM, 1873-1882. doi:10.1145/2207676.2208324
Game User Research
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Heather Desurvire, Lennart Nacke, Anders Drachen, Licia Calvi, Katherine Isbister, and Regina Bernhaupt. 2012. Game User Research. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2012. Austin, TX, United States. ACM, 2679-2682. doi:10.1145/2212776.2212694
Lennart Nacke on Marketing through Gamification & Reciprocity
Lennart Nacke. 2012. Lennart Nacke on Marketing through Gamification & Reciprocity. 422-423.
Mixed Reality Games
Elizabeth Bonsignore, Derek Hansen, Phoebe Toups, Lennart Nacke, Anastasia Salter, and Wayne Lutters. 2012. Mixed Reality Games. In Proceedings of CSCW 2012. Seattle, WA, United States. ACM, 7-8. doi:10.1145/2141512.2141517
Motion-Based Game Design for Older Adults
Kathrin Gerling, Ian Livingston, Lennart Nacke, and Regan Mandryk. 2012. Motion-Based Game Design for Older Adults. In Proceedings of GRAND 2012. Montréal, QC, Canada.
Year 2011
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Arnie Lund, Annuska Perkins, Sri Kurniawan, and Lennart Nacke. 2011. Accessible Games SIG. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, 883-886. doi:10.1145/1979742.1979545
Biofeedback Game Design: Using Direct and Indirect Physiological Control to Enhance Game Interaction
Lennart Nacke, Michael Kalyn, Calvin Lough, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. Biofeedback Game Design: Using Direct and Indirect Physiological Control to Enhance Game Interaction. In Proceedings of CHI 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, 103-112. doi:10.1145/1978942.1978958
Brain and Body Interfaces: Designing for Meaningful Interaction
Stephen Fairclough, Kiel Gilleade, Lennart Nacke, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. Brain and Body Interfaces: Designing for Meaningful Interaction. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, 65-68. doi:10.1145/1979742.1979591
BrainHex: Preliminary Results from a Neurobiological Gamer Typology Survey
Lennart Nacke, Chris Bateman, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. BrainHex: Preliminary Results from a Neurobiological Gamer Typology Survey. In Proceedings of ICEC 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 288-293. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_31
Calibration Games : Making Calibration Tasks Enjoyable by Adding Motivating Game Elements
David Flatla, Carl Gutwin, Lennart Nacke, Scott Bateman, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. Calibration Games : Making Calibration Tasks Enjoyable by Adding Motivating Game Elements. In Proceedings of ACM UIST 2011. Santa Barbara, CA, United States. ACM, 403-412. doi:10.1145/2047196.2047248
Designing Affective Games Using Psychophysiological Input
Lennart Nacke and Regan Mandryk. 2011. Designing Affective Games Using Psychophysiological Input. Online: http://www.acagamic.com/uploads/2007/09/GRAND-Poster.pdf
Developing a Triangulation System for Digital Game Events, Observational Video, and Psychophysiological Data to Study Emotional Responses to a Virtual Character
J. Matias Kivikangas, Lennart Nacke, and Niklas Ravaja. 2011. Developing a Triangulation System for Digital Game Events, Observational Video, and Psychophysiological Data to Study Emotional Responses to a Virtual Character. In Entertainment Computing 2, 1: 11-16. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2011.03.006
Directions in Physiological Game Evaluation and Interaction
Lennart Nacke. 2011. Directions in Physiological Game Evaluation and Interaction. In Proceedings of the BBI Workshop at CHI 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Evaluating Player Experience in Games
Anders Drachen, Calvin Lough, and Lennart Nacke. 2011. Evaluating Player Experience in Games. In 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Workshop, 2011. ACM.
From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining "Gamification"
Sebastian Deterding, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled, and Lennart Nacke. 2011. From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining "Gamification". In Proceedings of MindTrek 2011. Tampere, Finland. ACM, 9-15. doi:10.1145/2181037.2181040
Gamification: Toward a Definition
Sebastian Deterding, Rilla Khaled, Lennart Nacke, and Dan Dixon. 2011. Gamification: Toward a Definition. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Gamification: Using Game Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts
Sebastian Deterding, Miguel Sicart, Lennart Nacke, Kenton O'Hara, and Dan Dixon. 2011. Gamification: Using Game Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts. In Proceedings of CHI EA 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, 2425-2428. doi:10.1145/1979742.1979575
Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience
Ian Livingston, Lennart Nacke, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience. In Proceedings of ICEC 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 89-100. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_10
LAIF: A Logging and Interaction Framework for Gaze-Based Interfaces in Virtual Entertainment Environments
Lennart Nacke, Sophie Stellmach, Dennis Sasse, Joerg Niesenhaus, and Raimund Dachselt. 2011. LAIF: A Logging and Interaction Framework for Gaze-Based Interfaces in Virtual Entertainment Environments. In Entertainment Computing 2, 4: 265-273. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2010.09.004
Player Typology in Theory and Practice
Chris Bateman, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, and Lennart Nacke. 2011. Player Typology in Theory and Practice. In Proceedings of DIGRA 2011. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound
Lennart Nacke and Mark Grimshaw. 2011. Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound. Hershey, PA, United States. IGI Global, 264-285. doi:10.4018/978-1-61692-828-5.ch013
The Impact of Negative Game Reviews and User Comments on Player Experience
Ian Livingston, Lennart Nacke, and Regan Mandryk. 2011. The Impact of Negative Game Reviews and User Comments on Player Experience. In Proceedings of ACM SIBGRAPH 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM, 4. doi:10.1145/2037692.2037697
Towards a Framework of Player Experience Research
Lennart Nacke and Anders Drachen. 2011. Towards a Framework of Player Experience Research. In Proceedings of EPEX 2011. Bordeaux, France.