Background Compared to traditional persuasive technology and health games, gamification
is posited to offer several advantages for motivating behaviour change for health and well …

Enjoyment has been identified as a central component of the player experience (PX), but
various, overlapping concepts within PX make it difficult to develop valid measures and a …

While the literature related to this topic has predominantly focused on investigating the
influence mechanism that social media influencers (SMIs) impose over their followers, less …

Digitally created online celebrities (so-called virtual influencers) have appeared on various
social media and video streaming platforms. While the scientific community has recently …

Based on self-determination theory, the current laboratory experiment investigates how the
use of virtual reality (VR) technology shapes the gaming experience. We hypothesize that …

The idea that game design can inspire the design of motivating, enjoyable interactive
systems has a long history in human-computer interaction. It currently experiences a …

With the development and evaluation of information technology, virtual reality technology
provides opportunities to offer an immersive and interactive experience for supplementing …

Games are important vehicles for learning and behavior change as long as players are
motivated to continue playing. We study the impact of verbal feedback in stimulating player …

We conducted an experiment to examine individuals' perceptions of enjoyable and
meaningful video games and the game characteristics and dimensions of need satisfaction …

The need-density hypothesis proposes that pathological gaming is most likely to occur when
satisfaction of three basic human needs (competence, autonomy, relatedness) is low in the …