Abstract Games User Research (GUR) focuses on measuring, analysing and understanding
player experiences to optimise game designs. Hence, GUR experts aim to understand how …

In response to calls for sense-making in the field of Human-Food Interaction, we offer a
systematic review of a subset of HFI works that we call Playful HFI-interventions that use …

Measuring theoretical concepts, so-called constructs, is a central challenge of Player
Experience research. Building on recent work in HCI and psychology, we conducted a …

Over the past 20 years, the proposal that immersive media, such as video games, can be
leveraged to enhance brain plasticity and learning has been put to the test. This expanding …

As it covers a wide spectrum, the research literature of human-computer interaction (HCI)
studies has a rich and multi-disciplinary content where there are limited studies …

With the increasing ubiquity of personal devices, social acceptability of human-machine
interactions has gained relevance and growing interest from the HCI community. Yet, there …

In HCI, the honeypot effect describes how people interacting with a system passively
stimulate passers-by to observe, approach and engage in an interaction. Previous research …

Although game studies are widely viewed as an interdisciplinary field, it is unclear how
interdisciplinary they actually are. In response, this article reads scientometric data and …

In this paper we present an analysis of the academic landscape of games research from the
last 15 years. We employed a data driven approach utilizing co-word and co-venue analysis …

This paper examines the complex relationship between competition and cooperation in
boardgame play. We understand boardgaming as distributed cognition, where people work …