Inferring a player's need for cognition from hints

Carlos Pereira Santos; J.V. Khan; P. Markopoulos

doi:10.1145/2856767.2856805

Inferring a player's need for cognition from hints

Carlos Pereira Santos, J.V. Khan, P. Markopoulos

Systemic Change

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Player behavior during game play can be used to construct player models that help adapt the game and make it more fun for the player involved. Similarly in-game behavior could help model personality traits that describe people's attitudes in a fashion that can be stable over time and over different domains, e.g., to support health coaching, or other behavior change approaches. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of this approach by relating Need for Cognition (NfC) a personality trait that can predict the effectiveness of different persuasion strategies upon users to a commonly used game mechanic -- hints. An experiment with N=188 participants confirmed our hypothesis that NfC has a negative correlation with the number of hints players follow during the game. Future work should confirm if adherence to hints can be used as a predictor of behavior in different games, and to find other game mechanics than hints, that help predict user traits.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IUI '16 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 7-10 March 2016, Sonoma, California
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	76-79
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4137-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2856767.2856805
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2016
Event	21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016) - Sonoma, United States Duration: 7 Mar 2016 → 10 Mar 2016 Conference number: 21

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016)
Abbreviated title	ACM IUI 2016
Country	United States
City	Sonoma
Period	7/03/16 → 10/03/16

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Pereira Santos, C, Khan, JV & Markopoulos, P 2016, Inferring a player's need for cognition from hints. in IUI '16 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 7-10 March 2016, Sonoma, California. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, pp. 76-79, 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016), Sonoma, United States, 7/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2856767.2856805

Inferring a player's need for cognition from hints. / Pereira Santos, Carlos; Khan, J.V.; Markopoulos, P.

IUI '16 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 7-10 March 2016, Sonoma, California. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 76-79.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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