Boredom, immersion, flow - a pilot study investigating player experience

MCCSIS'08 - IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems; Proceedings of Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 and Gaming 2008: Design for Engaging Experience Soc. Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 103-107

  Nacke, Lennart ^a   Lindley, Craig ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Game design; Gameplay experience; Player research; Quantitative study; Self report measures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; VISUALIZATION;

GAME DESIGN; GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE; PLAYER RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SELF-REPORT MEASURES;

DESIGN;

EID: 58449125541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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