TY - GEN
T1 - Enjoyment or engagement? Role of social interaction in playing Massively Militplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS)
AU - Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua
AU - Duh, Henry Been Lirn
AU - Phuah, Priscilla Siew Koon
AU - Lam, Diana Zi Yan
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Based on data collected through 40 in-depth interviews, it is found that (a) the balance between perceived challenges and skills, and (b) the types of in-game social interactions can both facilitate and impede the enjoyment of game playing. Through these two factors, a conclusive link was also found between game enjoyments and a gamer's engagement level. Engaged gamers experience optimal enjoyment more frequently and value the importance of social interactions more than non-engaged gamers. In addition, game enjoyment can be enhanced through game design and it can also be adversely affected by real world contextual factors and technical difficulties. More importantly, the study underlines the importance of social interaction. Social interaction is the key factor that determines the level of engagement of gamers. For engaged gamers, social interaction is essential in this gaming experience. For non-engaged gamers, social interaction is not important and they have little tolerance of negative social interaction within the game.
AB - Based on data collected through 40 in-depth interviews, it is found that (a) the balance between perceived challenges and skills, and (b) the types of in-game social interactions can both facilitate and impede the enjoyment of game playing. Through these two factors, a conclusive link was also found between game enjoyments and a gamer's engagement level. Engaged gamers experience optimal enjoyment more frequently and value the importance of social interactions more than non-engaged gamers. In addition, game enjoyment can be enhanced through game design and it can also be adversely affected by real world contextual factors and technical difficulties. More importantly, the study underlines the importance of social interaction. Social interaction is the key factor that determines the level of engagement of gamers. For engaged gamers, social interaction is essential in this gaming experience. For non-engaged gamers, social interaction is not important and they have little tolerance of negative social interaction within the game.
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U2 - 10.1007/11872320_31
DO - 10.1007/11872320_31
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:33750058834
SN - 3540452591
SN - 9783540452591
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 262
EP - 267
BT - Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006 - 5th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2006
Y2 - 20 September 2006 through 22 September 2006
ER -