User engagement is a key concept in designing user-centred web applications. It refers to
the quality of the user experience that emphasises the positive aspects of the interaction …

Abstract Background and Aim Gamefulness is commonly cited as the primary goal of
gamification, a family of approaches employed in education, business, healthcare …

The use of serious games to support learning continues to expand across a range of
educational and training settings. Hence, a need exists to understand more fully how users …

This paper explores User Experience, a rather novel and popular view on human-computer
interaction, through an extensive review of the literature. After introducing its polysemous …

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between advergame design, advergame
experience and consumer behaviour across cultures. For this purpose, a study was …

Digital games have become the most popular medium of our time, having even surpassed
the movie industry in terms of sales. Arguably, digital games offer some of the most …

Background. Several HCI researchers have started to use game design elements in their
research to create playful methods for involving end-users in design. Similar to serious …

Digital games are the fastest growing medium of our time. Their proliferation and prominent
role in society have sparked public debates and led to the development of “game studies” …

In recent years, game narrative has emerged as an area for novel game concepts and as a
strategy to distinguish a particular title. However, innovation in this area comes primarily …

This dissertation presents a multi-method approach to study the user experience of playing
video games. The motivation is to devise an objective assessment of the concept of user …