The convergence of player experience questionnaires

TY - GEN

T1 - The convergence of player experience questionnaires

AU - Denisova, Alena

AU - Nordin, A. Imran

AU - Cairns, Paul

PY - 2016/10/16

Y1 - 2016/10/16

N2 - Player experience is an important field of digital games research to understand how games influence players. A common way to directly measure players' reported experiences is through questionnaires. However, the large number of questionnaires currently in use introduces several challenges both in terms of selecting suitable measures and comparing results across studies. In this paper, we review some of the most widely known and used questionnaires and focus on the immersive experience questionnaire (IEQ), the game engagement questionnaire (GEQ), and the player experience of need satisfaction (PENS), with the aim to position each of them in relation to each other. This was done through an online survey, in which we gathered 270 responses from players about their most recent experience of a digital game. Our findings show considerable convergence between these three questionnaires and that there is room to refine them into a more widely applicable measure of general game engagement.

AB - Player experience is an important field of digital games research to understand how games influence players. A common way to directly measure players' reported experiences is through questionnaires. However, the large number of questionnaires currently in use introduces several challenges both in terms of selecting suitable measures and comparing results across studies. In this paper, we review some of the most widely known and used questionnaires and focus on the immersive experience questionnaire (IEQ), the game engagement questionnaire (GEQ), and the player experience of need satisfaction (PENS), with the aim to position each of them in relation to each other. This was done through an online survey, in which we gathered 270 responses from players about their most recent experience of a digital game. Our findings show considerable convergence between these three questionnaires and that there is room to refine them into a more widely applicable measure of general game engagement.

KW - Engagement

KW - GEQ

KW - IEQ

KW - Immersion

KW - PENS

KW - Player experience

KW - Player experience of need satisfaction

KW - Questionnaires

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995388913&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2967934.2968095

DO - 10.1145/2967934.2968095

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:84995388913

SP - 33

EP - 37

BT - CHI PLAY 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

PB - ACM

T2 - 3rd ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2016

Y2 - 16 October 2016 through 19 October 2016

ER -