Games that Make Curious

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Games that Make Curious

An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity

Conference Paper (2018)

Author(s)

Marcello A. Gómez Maureira (Universiteit Leiden)

Isabelle Kniestedt (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)

Research Group

System Engineering

Game user research Curiosity research Game analysis

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7 Final published version

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Publication Year

2018

Language

English

Research Group

System Engineering

Pages (from-to)

76-89

Publisher

Springer

ISBN (print)

9783319994253

Event

17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018 Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018 (2018-09-17 - 2018-09-20), Poznan, Poland

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Abstract

Curiosity is an important aspect of life, but studying it is challenging without reliable stimuli. Digital games provide an ideal stimulus to investigate the circumstances that trigger curiosity and how it is expressed. A survey was conducted with the goal of assessing what game titles and game genres should be analysed to further the study of curiosity. To consider different types of curiosity, we included the Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale (5DC) questionnaire. The survey was completed by 113 participants, and resulted in 301 game suggestions that warrant further analysis. Exploration, social simulation, and collecting tasks within games were found to rank high in triggering curiosity. We further found that social curiosity in individuals correlates with having curiosity triggered by social simulations.