A systematic review of quantitative studies on the enjoyment of digital entertainment games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 927-936

  Mekler, Elisa D ^a   Bopp, Julia Ayumi ^a   Tuch, Alexandre N ^a   Opwis, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital Games; Enjoyment; Flow; Player Experience

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AFFECTIVE APPRAISAL; DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT; DIGITAL GAMES; ENJOYMENT; FLOW; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84900395162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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