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CHI PLAY BINGOCHI PLAY 20242024-10-14
A playable workshop designs a customized BINGO card that attendees carry to sessions to prompt concrete moments (e.g., specific phrases, methodological…
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Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video G...CHI PLAY 20242024-10-14
Interviews with 13 indie developers reveal five core themes about playtesting: difficulty recruiting representative participants (NDAs and trusted panels bias…
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Five CHI PLAY Papers I Like: On Championing Published Work That Has MeritCHI PLAY 20242024-10-14
Argues CHI PLAY does a poor job documenting why awarded papers matter and offers four reasons to champion published papers: strengthens judgment, makes…
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''I'm the leader and I'm going to save the world'' --- Characterizing Empowering and Disempowerin...CHI PLAY 20232023-10-10
Survey of 250 participants categorizes player reports into seven themes and links those themes to quantitative measures (need satisfaction, PXI) rather than…
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Jank Accounts: We Should Study `Broken' GamesCHI PLAY 20232023-10-10
Argues that user-facing glitches and awkward mechanics often increase player situational awareness rather than only causing frustration, linking specific…
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Statistical Significance Testing at CHI PLAY: Challenges and Opportunities for More TransparencyCHI PLAY 20202020-11-02
A systematic audit of 119 CHI PLAY papers shows concrete problems: over half lack explicit hypotheses, many omit sample size and test details, and selective…
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Recognizing Emotional Expression in Game StreamsCHI PLAY 20192019-10-22
A multimodal system labels emotional events in game streams using neural facial-expression analysis, transcript sentiment, voice-emotion models and low-level…
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Exploring Emotional Attachment to Game CharactersCHI PLAY 20192019-10-22
An online survey with 213 players uses eight open-answer questions and inductive thematic analysis to claim there are seven distinct forms of attachment to…
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"An Odd Kind of Pleasure": Differentiating Emotional Challenge in Digital GamesCHI 20182018-04-21
Survey of 171 players asks for a single challenging or emotionally challenging game moment and codes responses. Emotional challenge appears as confronting…
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