Emotional Design for Digital Games for Learning: The Affective Quality of Expression, Color, Shape, and Dimensionality of Game Characters

Autor/inn/en	Plass, Jan L.; Homer, Bruce D.; MacNamara, Andrew; Ober, Teresa; Rose, Maya C.; Pawar, Shashank; Hovey, Chris M.; Olsen, Alvaro
Titel	Emotional Design for Digital Games for Learning: The Affective Quality of Expression, Color, Shape, and Dimensionality of Game Characters
Quelle	(2019), (55 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Games; Game Based Learning; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Adults; Adolescents; Emotional Response; Visual Stimuli; Color; Affective Behavior; Spatial Ability; Geometric Concepts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational game; Lernspiel; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Emotionales Verhalten; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Elementare Geometrie
Abstract	What is the affective quality of specific design features of game characters? The Integrative Model of Emotion in Game-based Learning (EmoGBL) describes common mechanisms of how emotion and learning processes interact to foster specific learning outcomes. In the present paper, we asked how color, shape, expression, and dimensionality of game characters induce emotions in digital games for learning. We investigated learners' perception of the affective quality of these four different visual design features for adults and adolescents using a forced choice paradigm (studies 1-3) as well as the PANAS-X and qualitative measures (study 4). Participants were shown a series of game characters and were asked to report their emotional response. Results show the relative contribution of the four visual attributes on players' perception of affective quality, with the visual design features of expression and dimensionality having the strongest effect, color a medium-sized effect, and shape a small to medium-sized effect. [This is the online version of an article published in "Learning and Instruction."] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01