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How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance
‘Juicy’ or immediate abundant action feedback is widely held to make video games enjoyable and intrinsically motivating. Yet we do not …
Dominic Kao, Nick Ballou, Kathrin Gerling, Heiko Breitsohl, Sebastian Deterding
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‘I Just Wanted to Get it Over and Done With’: A Grounded Theory of Psychological Need Frustration in Video Games
Psychological need frustration—experiences like failure, loneliness, or coercion—is emerging as a promising explanation for why people …
Nick Ballou, Sebastian Deterding
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Do People Use Games to Compensate for Psychological Needs During Crises? A Mixed-Methods Study of Gaming During COVID-19 Lockdowns
Do people use games to cope with adverse life events and crises? Research informed by self-determination theory proposes that people …
Nick Ballou, Sebastian Deterding, Ioanna Iacovides, Laura Helsby
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Self-Determination Theory in HCI : Shaping a Research Agenda
Self-determination theory (SDT) has become one of the most frequently used and well-validated theories used in HCI research, modelling …
Nick Ballou, Sebastian Deterding, April Tyack, Elisa Mekler, Rafael A Calvo, Dorian Peters, Gabriela Villalobos Zúñiga, Selen Türkay
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Actions, not gestures: contextualising embodied controller interactions in immersive virtual reality
Modern immersive virtual reality (IVR) often uses embodied con- trollers for interacting with virtual objects. However, it is not clear …
Jack Ratcliffe, Nick Ballou, Laurissa Tokarchuk
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Not Very Effective: Validity Issues of the Effectance in Games Scale
Effectance—the basic positive experience of causing effects—provides a promising explanation for the enjoyment derived from novel …
Nick Ballou, Heiko Breitsohl, Dominic Kao, Kathrin Gerling, Sebastian Deterding
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Are You Open? A Content Analysis of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in HCI Journals
Within the wider open science reform movement, HCI researchers are actively debating how to foster transparency in their own field. …
Nick Ballou, Vivek Warriar, Sebastian Deterding
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