Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity

Marcello A. Gómez Maureira; Isabelle Kniestedt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7

Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity

Marcello A. Gómez Maureira^*
, Isabelle Kniestedt

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings
Editors	Licinio Roque, Artur Lugmayr, Esteban Clua, Pauliina Tuomi
Publisher	Springer
Pages	76-89
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783319994253
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018 Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018 - Poznan, Poland Duration: 17 Sept 2018 → 20 Sept 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11112 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018 Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Poznan
Period	17/09/18 → 20/09/18

Keywords

Curiosity research
Game analysis
Game user research

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Gómez Maureira, M. A., & Kniestedt, I. (2018). Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. In L. Roque, A. Lugmayr, E. Clua, & P. Tuomi (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings (pp. 76-89). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11112 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7

Gómez Maureira, Marcello A. ; Kniestedt, Isabelle. / Games that Make Curious : An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings. editor / Licinio Roque ; Artur Lugmayr ; Esteban Clua ; Pauliina Tuomi. Springer, 2018. pp. 76-89 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Gómez Maureira, MA & Kniestedt, I 2018, Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. in L Roque, A Lugmayr, E Clua & P Tuomi (eds), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11112 LNCS, Springer, pp. 76-89, 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018 Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, 17/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7

Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. / Gómez Maureira, Marcello A.; Kniestedt, Isabelle.
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings. ed. / Licinio Roque; Artur Lugmayr; Esteban Clua; Pauliina Tuomi. Springer, 2018. p. 76-89 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11112 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Gómez Maureira MA, Kniestedt I. Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. In Roque L, Lugmayr A, Clua E, Tuomi P, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018 - 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Proceedings. Springer. 2018. p. 76-89. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7

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