Many designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to
understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. Games have been …

The authors present the methodological background to and underlying research design of
an ongoing research project on the scientific evaluation of serious games and/or computer‐…

Most serious games have been developed without a proper and comprehensive design
theory. To contribute to the development of such a theory, this article presents the underlying …

From the observations of successful entertainment games, it is hypothesized that implementing
a single-player option may require a different approach from that in a multiplayer option, …

Searching for relative mobile user interface (UI) design examples can aid interface designers
in gaining inspiration and comparing design alternatives. However, finding such design …

Programming and computational thinking skills are promoted in schools worldwide. However,
there is still a lack of tools that assist learners and educators in the assessment of these …

Esports are rapidly growing within academia. In HCI, earlier work explored how problematic
behaviors emerging from gender biases (eg, toxicity) negatively impact female participation …

Questionnaires are vital in games user research (GUR) to assess player experience (PX).
However, having too many questions in surveys prevents wider uptake among GUR …

Computational thinking (CT) is key to digital literacy and helps develop problem-solving skills,
which are fundamental in modern school. As game design shows potential for teaching CT…

The term escapism tends to be used in game research without providing any extensive
definition of what it means or acknowledging its composite nature. In this paper, the authors …