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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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