The effect of time manipulation on immersion in digital games

TY - GEN

T1 - The effect of time manipulation on immersion in digital games

AU - Abd Rahman, Mohd Hafiz

AU - Nordin, A. Imran

AU - Denisova, Alena

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

PY - 2017/10/29

Y1 - 2017/10/29

N2 - Many empirical studies look into identifying factors that influence the quality of experience in video games. In this paper, we present research into the effect of playing time and players’ perception of the time on their immersion in the game. We invited 20 participants to play a puzzle game Bejeweled 2 for 7 min. They played the game in two conditions, namely, correct time (timer was programmed to be exactly 7 min) and wrong time (the countdown was set to be for 6 min, but was presented as a 7 min timer to the player). Players’ immersion scores were measured after the game using the IEQ. The results show no significant difference in immersion scores between the two conditions and participants’ comments also revealed that they perceived no difference in playing time between the conditions. This suggests that there is a dissociation between gaming time and subjective experience of gaming. Further research is required to investigate the relationship between playing time and positive gaming experiences.

AB - Many empirical studies look into identifying factors that influence the quality of experience in video games. In this paper, we present research into the effect of playing time and players’ perception of the time on their immersion in the game. We invited 20 participants to play a puzzle game Bejeweled 2 for 7 min. They played the game in two conditions, namely, correct time (timer was programmed to be exactly 7 min) and wrong time (the countdown was set to be for 6 min, but was presented as a 7 min timer to the player). Players’ immersion scores were measured after the game using the IEQ. The results show no significant difference in immersion scores between the two conditions and participants’ comments also revealed that they perceived no difference in playing time between the conditions. This suggests that there is a dissociation between gaming time and subjective experience of gaming. Further research is required to investigate the relationship between playing time and positive gaming experiences.

KW - Digital games

KW - Immersion

KW - Player experience

KW - Playing time

KW - User experience

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85035127909&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70010-6_50

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70010-6_50

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85035127909

SN - 9783319700090

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 544

EP - 551

BT - Advances in Visual Informatics - 5th International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2017, Proceedings

A2 - Shih, Timothy K.

A2 - Velastin, Sergio

A2 - Robinson, Peter

A2 - Smeaton, Alan F.

A2 - Terutoshi, Tada

A2 - Badioze Zaman, Halimah

A2 - Jaafar, Azizah

A2 - Mohamad Ali, Nazlena

PB - Springer

T2 - 5th International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2017

Y2 - 28 November 2017 through 30 November 2017

ER -