Identification with the player character as determinant of video game enjoyment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4740 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 39-48

  Hefner, Dorothée ^a   Klimmt, Christoph ^a   Vorderer, Peter ^b  

^a Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer games; Enjoyment; Experiment; Identification; Video games

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; EXPERIMENTS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER GAMES; VIDEO GAMES; BATTLEFIELD 2; ENJOYMENT; ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING; INTERACTIVITY; PILOT EXPERIMENT; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; VIDEO GAME;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 38149088229     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74873-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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