Research — University XP

The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background

The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background

Digital Media, gamesDave EngDecember 28, 2022Video gaming, digital media, children, intelligences, genetics, cognition, socioeconomic, childhood, researchComment

How Early Rewards Influence Choice: Targeting model-free processing through reward timing

Education, Rewards, gamesDave EngDecember 21, 2022Dual process theory, rewards, temporal discounting, temporal difference learning, researchComment

Here Comes No Boom! The Lack of Sound Feedback Effects on Performance and User Experience in a Gamified Image Classification Task

Here Comes No Boom! The Lack of Sound Feedback Effects on Performance and User Experience in a Gamified Image Classification Task

Sound, gamesDave EngDecember 14, 2022Gamification, classification, feedback, user experience, performance, researchComment

Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful

Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful

Taste, gamesDave EngDecember 1, 2022Games, playful, skills, agility, educators, students, researchComment

Design Out Helplessness: AI Interventions for Game Inclusivity

Design Out Helplessness: AI Interventions for Game Inclusivity

gamesDave EngNovember 22, 2022Game inclusivity, video games, game contents, learning-based, research, assistance methodsComment

User Testing for Serious Game Design: Improving the Player Experience

User Testing for Serious Game Design: Improving the Player Experience

gamesDave EngNovember 6, 2022Game design, player experience, user testing, video games, researchComment

Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes toward Digital-Game-Based Language Learning

Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes toward Digital-Game-Based Language Learning

digital GBL, gamesDave EngOctober 29, 2022Digital game, game-based learning, teachers’ knowledge, literature, researchComment

Design principles for introducing 21st century skills by means of game-based learning

Design principles for introducing 21st century skills by means of game-based learning

Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture

Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture

The Impact of game play and novel entertainment on cognitive skills

The Impact of game play and novel entertainment on cognitive skills

Entertainment, Cog, gamesDave EngOctober 13, 2022Game play, cognitive skills, novel entertainment, educational games, researchComment

Virtual reality technology and game enjoyment: The contributions of natural mapping and need satisfaction

Virtual reality technology and game enjoyment: The contributions of natural mapping and need satisfaction

Immersive Machine Learning for Social Attitude Detection in Virtual Reality Narrative Games

Immersive Machine Learning for Social Attitude Detection in Virtual Reality Narrative Games

Emotional and cognitive effects of learning with computer simulations and computer videogames

Emotional and cognitive effects of learning with computer simulations and computer videogames

gamesDave EngSeptember 29, 2022Video games, computer games, computer simulations, emotions, cognitive effects, researchComment

Preschool Teacher's Misconceptions about Games

Preschool Teacher's Misconceptions about Games

gamesDave EngSeptember 16, 2022Games, non-digital games, preschool, quantitative data, preschool teachers, researchComment

How do gamification mechanics drive solvers’ Knowledge contribution? A study of collaborative knowledge crowdsourcing

How do gamification mechanics drive solvers’ Knowledge contribution? A study of collaborative knowledge crowdsourcing

A Preliminary Study of the Influence of Game Types on the Learning Interests of Primary School Students in Digital Games

A Preliminary Study of the Influence of Game Types on the Learning Interests of Primary School Students in Digital Games

Learning, gamesDave EngAugust 19, 2022Self-learning, augmented reality, game-based learning, digital learning, researchComment

Do Games Reduce Math Anxiety? A meta-analysis.

Do Games Reduce Math Anxiety? A meta-analysis.

Math, Anxiety, gamesDave EngAugust 16, 2022Game based learning, math anxiety, games, meta-anaylsis, researchComment

Taking the Playing Lean Experience Online

Taking the Playing Lean Experience Online

Motivations of Hobby Game Players

Motivations of Hobby Game Players

Hobby, board games, gamesDave EngAugust 13, 2022Game players, digital games, playing, interactions, games, researchComment

How Gaming and Formative Assessment Contribute to Learning Supplementary and Complementary Angles

How Gaming and Formative Assessment Contribute to Learning Supplementary and Complementary Angles