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Player Type Models: Towards Empirical Validation

Authors:

Elke Mattheiss,

Peter Fröhlich,

Michael Lankes,

Manfred TscheligiAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1835 - 1841

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892399

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Player type models -- such as the BrainHex model -- are popular approaches for personalizing digital games towards individual preferences of players. Although several player type models have been developed and are currently used in game design projects, there is still a lack of data on their validity. To close this research gap we currently investigate the psychometric properties (factor structure, reliability, stability) and predictive validity (if player type scores can predict player experience) of the player type model BrainHex in an ongoing project. Results of two online studies (n1=592, n2=243) show that the psychometric properties of the BrainHex model could be improved. We suggest to improve the according questionnaire and sketch how the predictive validity could be investigated in future studies.

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1. Human-centered computing

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