S040: Understanding and Improving Player Experience in Digital Games
Chair: Owen Schaffer, United States

• Understanding Individual Differences in Mental Health and Video Games
  Matthew Copeman, Jonathan Freeman, United Kingdom
  
• Exploring the Efficacy of Persuasion Strategies for Different User Types in Games that Encourage Environmentally Behavior
  Siyu Yue, Yongyan Guo, P.R. China
  
• Games as Cinematic Experiences: Discussing Filmic Modes and Ludic Elements in Video-Game Storytelling
  Natalia Arsenopoulou, Anna Poupou, Charalampos Rizopoulos, Greece
  
• Your Favorite Gameplay Speaks Volumes about You: Predicting User Behavior and Hexad Type
  Reza Hadi Mogavi, Hong Kong; Chao Deng, Jennifer Hoffman, United States; Ehsan-Ul Haq, Hong Kong; Sujit Gujar, India; Antonio Bucchiarone, Italy; Pan Hui, Hong Kong
  
• Exploring Virtual Reality (VR) to foster Attention in Math Practice – Comparing a VR to a non-VR Game
  Meike Belter, Heide Lukosch, Robert W. Lindeman, Yuanjie Wu, New Zealand; Frank Steinicke, Germany
  
• Enhancing Children's Cultural Empowerment through Participatory Game Design based on Hometown Ceramic Culture
  Xianhe Zhang, Baosheng Wang, P.R. China
  

S092: Usability and User Experience Design within Games
Chair: Michael Brandse, Japan

• Level Flow Patterns in Game Design
  Michael Brandse, Japan
  
• Visual Guidance in Game Level Design
  Gang Guo, Japan
  
• Mathmages: e-Sports and Mathematics in the Amazon Region
  Sylker Teles, Isabelly Oliveira, Suziane Cundiff, Tarcinara Tavares, Rodrigo Rosas, Brendo Teles, Brazil
  
• Expected Human Performance Behavior in Chess Using Centipawn Loss Analysis
  Rafael V. Leite, Anderson V.C. De Oliveira, Brazil
  
• GPU based Position Based Dynamics for Surgical Simulators
  Doga Demirel, Jason Smith, Sinan Kockara, Tansel Halic, United States
  
• Fits Like A Game: a Multi-criteria Adaptive Gamification for Collaborative Location-based Collecting Systems
  Maria Dalponte Ayastuy, Alejandro Fernandez, Diego Torres, Argentina
  

S105: The Application of Game design elements. "Gamification, Edutainment, and Serious Games."
Chair: Abdullah Azhari, Saudi Arabia

• A Survey on Application of Game Design Elements in Edutainment
  Souad Ahmad Baowidan, Saudi Arabia
  
• Driving Consumer Value Co-creation and Repurchase Intention and e-WOM by Gameful Experience in Gamification
  Hassan Alsaggaf, Saudi Arabia
  
• Research on design strategy of Puppetry based on Octalysis framework
  Lu Xu, Tianhong Fang, P.R. China
  
• Gamification Design of A Carbon Neutral Science App for Children Based on the Octagon Behavior Analysis Model
  Yushan Wang, P.R. China
  
• Climate change literacy gamified: How gamification mechanics affect user experience factors in the user interfaces.
  Xinyue Zhang, P.R. China
  
• Design Considerations for Virtual Reality (VR) Vaping Applications: Co-Designing Persuasive Computing Scenarios
  Fatima Adem, Noor Alsaadoun, Hoda Elsayed, Areej Al-Wabil, Saudi Arabia
  

S144: Gamification and Serious Games: Innovative Applications and Design Strategies
Chair: Nandhini Giri, United States

• Research on the Design of Gamified Cervical Spine Exercise APP Based on Octalysis
  Qin Yang, Hong Chen, XiaoRan Zhao, P.R. China
  
• "Escapad" Dance Serious Game: Designing a Therapeutic Tool for Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment
  Sawsen Ayari, Olivier Gavarry, Alexandre Abellard, France
  
• Prototyping Gamification Apps Using Board Games: A Case Study of Muscle Stretching App
  Meng-Dar Shieh, Yi-Lin Tsai, Fang-Chen Hsu, Chih-Chieh Yang, Taiwan
  
• Systematic Review: Incorporating Serious Games into Public Environmental Education on Urban Wildlife Issues
  Keyi Gu, Zhifeng Jin, Xinghui Chen, Jingyu Zhou, Jialin Ma, Zhejun Liu, P.R. China
  
• Innovative Thinking about Human-Computer Interaction in Interactive Narrative Games
  Xintong Gao, Wei Yu, P.R. China
  
• A More Reasonable Mecha Design Approach in AI -- Mecha Characters with Tang Dynasty Elements as an Example
  Yubin Zhong, Jing Luo, P.R. China
  

S158: Playful Experiences: Design and Impact - I
Chair: Daniel Riha, Czech Republic

• Are Patterns Game for Our Brain? AI identifies individual Differences in Rationality and Intuition Characteristics of Respondents Attempting to Identify Random and Non-random Patterns
  Silvia Boschetti, Czech Republic; Hermann Prossinger, Austria; Tomas Hladky, Daniel Riha, Lenka Priplatova, Robin Kopecky, Jakub Binter, Czech Republic
  
• "Should My Best Prove Insufficient, We Will Find Another Way”: Time Loop Mechanics as Expressions of Hope in Digital Games
  Monica Evans, United States
  
• Didactical Design Goes Rogue? Children’s Playful Explorations While Engaged in Scaffolded Coding Activities Supported by Robots
  Jeanette Sjoberg, Sweden; Eva Brooks, Denmark
  
• From Stone Age to New Age Statistics: How Neural Networks Overcome the Irreproducibility Problems in Choice Based Profile Creation
  Hermann Prossinger, Silvia Boschetti, Daniel Riha, Libor Pacovsky, Jakub Binter, Czech Republic
  
• Never Correct: The Novel Analysis of Differing Visual (Facial Expression) and Acoustic (Vocalization) Bimodal Displays of the Affective States “Pain”, “Pleasure”, and “Neutral”
  Silvia Boschetti, Hermann Prossinger, Czech Republic; Violetta Prossinger-Beck, Germany; Tomas Hladky, Daniel Riha, Jakub Binter, Czech Republic
  
• Does the Voice Reveal More Emotion than the Face? A Study with Animated Agents
  Joshua E. Heller, Nicoletta Adamo, Nandhini Giri, Derek Larson, United States
  

S174: Emerging Trends and Best Practices in Game Design
Room 17
Chair: Xiaowen Fang, United States

• Fiat Lux! Does the Lighting Design Affect Viewers’ Perception of an Animated Character Personality?
  Abdelrahman Mehrez, Nicoletta Adamo, Nandhini Giri, Derek Larson, United States
  
• Using MediaPipe Machine Learning to Design Casual Exertion Games to Interrupt Prolonged Sedentary Lifestyle
  Erik Berglund, Izabella Jedel, Aseel Berglund, Sweden
  
• Toward Computationally-Supported Roleplaying for Perspective-Taking
  Caglar Yildirim, Sercan Sengun, Pakinam Amer, JJ Hawke, D. Fox Harrell, United States
  
• Toward A Toolkit For Co-designing Collaborative Play With and For Autistic Children
  Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab, Dena Al-Thani, Joselia Neves, Nahwan Al Aswadi, Shaza Khatab, Qatar
  
• Empathy Game: using the Game as SPRINT Warm-up Process in a Cross-Disciplinary Team Co-Creation
  Chi-Chi Shih, Teng-Wen Chang, Shih-Ting Tsai, Hsiang-Ting Chien, Cheng-Chun Hong, Pei-Yun Wu, Taiwan
  
• Serious Game Design for High-Risk Training – The Case of Offshore Wind Turbine Maintenance Personnel Training
  Shin-Mei Chen, Meng-Dar Shieh, Shun-Yuan Cheng, Taiwan
  

S222: Playful Experiences: Design and Impact - IΙ
Room B3 M3
Chair: Daniel Riha, Czech Republic

• Be a gamer: A Psycho-social Characterization of the Player
  Tania Ribeiro, Ana Isabel Veloso, Portugal; Peter Brinson, United States
  
• Orpheus' Journey
  David A. Plecher, Leonie Wargitsch, Christian Eichhorn, Gudrun Klinker, Germany
  
• Playable Characters in Digital Games: Aesthetics and Gender Identity in Digital Game Player's preferences
  Tania Ribeiro, Rebeca Mendes, Ana Isabel Veloso, Portugal
  
• Economics and impact of playful experiences: a study of start-ups developing games and gaming applications in Budapest and Copenhagen
  Matyas Janos Spiesz, Diogo Pereira Henriques, Denmark
  
• Verification of Repetition of Playing a Game for Activity Selection in a Group
  Satoki Fujimoto, Masayuki Ando, Kouyou Otsu, Tomoko Izumi, Japan
  
• Making the Digital Tangible through Analog Games: Design Retrospective of Digital Literacy Games
  Scott DeJong, Canada
  

S238: Insights into Player Behavior and Gaming Experience
Room 17
Chair: Amir Zaib Abbasi, Saudi Arabia

• Skull Hunt: An Educational Game for Teaching Biology
  Julio Litwin Lima, Carla D. Castanho, Luiz Belmonte, Veronica Slobodian, Guilherme Carvalho, Gabriela Hirata, Julia Klaczko, Brazil
  
• Student’s view on Hate Speech: Gamified Annotation for Educational Use
  Jan Fillies, Raimi Solorzano Niederhausen, Silvio Peikert, Adrian Paschke, Germany
  
• Using Gamification to Activate University Library Use
  Takahiro Kitamura, Yasuyuki Sumi, Japan
  
• Comparing Hedonic Consumption Experiences between MOBA Games and Vrides
  Amir Zaib Abbasi, Saudi Arabia; Helmut Hlavacs, Austria; Umair Rehman, Canada
  
• Let the players go! Autonomous player experiences can substitute excessive hand-holding
  Milas Ray Manley Norman, Alessandro Canossa, Denmark
  
• Prediction of Quality of Experience (QoE) of cloud-gaming through an approach to extracting the indicators from User Generated Content (UGC)
  Siqi Li, Tao Wen, Hongyan Yan, Xiangang Qin, P.R. China
  

S285: Recent Development in Gaming and Human-Computer Interaction
Room 20
Chairs: Khaldoon Dhou, United States; Barbara Caci, Italy; George Margetis, Greece

• A Metamodel for Immersive Gaming Experiences in Virtual Reality
  Fabiola Rivera, Francisco J. Gutierrez, Chile
  
• Biofeedback-Controlled Video Games for Emotional Regulation
  Alexis Espinoza, Joaquin Larrain, Francisco J. Gutierrez, Chile
  
• Visual Summarisations for Computer-Assisted Live Color Casting and Direction in League of Legends
  George Margetis, Konstantinos C. Apostolakis, Stavroula Ntoa, Ioannis Chatzakis, Eirini Sykianaki, Ioannis Markopoulos, Constantine Stephanidis, Greece
  
• An Exploration of Feared Versus Fearless Attack Attitudes Using the Chess Personalities of Virtual Chess Players
  Khaldoon Dhou, United States
  
• The Gaming World of Educational Robotics. A Review Study
  Filippo La Paglia, Daniele La Barbera, Barbara Caci, Italy
  
• Applicability of Psychophysiological and Perception Data for Mapping Strategies in League of Legends – an Exploratory Study
  Ian N. Bandeira, Carla D. Castanho, Tiago B.P. E Silva, Mauricio M. Sarmet, Ricardo P. Jacobi, Brazil
  

S333: Applied Research on Video Games
Room 20
Chair: Kevin Keeker, United States

• Information Architecture in Games' Settings Menus - A Player-focused, Holistic Approach
  John Dickens, United Kingdom
  
• Friend Group Play in PvE Live Service Games
  Micah Benson, Alysha Halpin, United Kingdom
  
• From Teams to Games: Connecting Game Development to Game Characteristics
  Emil Lundedal Hammar, Alessandro Canossa, Michael Debus, Denmark; Johannes Pfau, Magy Seif El-Nasr, United States; Jesper Juul, Denmark; Ahmad Azadvar, Sweden
  
• Narrative in Live Service Games: A Fortnite Case Study
  Tanya McDonnell, United Kingdom
  
• Design and Research of an Interactive Game Based on Motion-Sensing Technology for Huizhou Brick Carvings
  Jie Wang, P.R. China
  

S349: Gamification Toward Information Systems
Room 20
Chairs: Fan Zhao, United States; Shufang Tan, P.R. China

• Exploring Learners' Flow and Related Design Strategies in Educational Games from a Psychic Entropy Perspective
  Shufang Tan, Wendan Huang, P.R. China; Jialing Zeng, United States; Junjie Shang, P.R. China
  
• Students’ Learning Outcomes Influenced by Textbook Selection: A Gamification Method using Eye-tracking Technology
  Ju Chou, Bryan Zhao, Eugene Hoyt, Sheri Silva, United States
  
• Rethinking Gamification through Artificial Intelligence
  Stephen Bezzina, Alexiei Dingli, Malta
  
• Task Significance in Digital Games: Controlled Experiment Shows Impact of Narrative Framing and Upgrades on Player Experience
  Owen Schaffer, United States
  
• Stocks Investment Decision-Making: A Theoretical Model
  Saeed Abo-oleet, Fan Zhao, Xiaowen Fang, United States
  
• Critical Success Factors to Evaluate Startup Success
  Stephanie Zhao, Lauren Fang, Eugene Hoyt, Fan Zhao, United States