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
Subtitle of host publication	17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings
Editors	Esteban Clua, Licinio Roque, Artur Lugmayr, Pauliina Tuomi
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	76-89
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-99426-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-99425-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018 - Poznan, Poland Duration: 17 Sept 2018 → 20 Sept 2018 Conference number: 17

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	11112
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2018
Abbreviated title	ICEC
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Poznan
Period	17/09/18 → 20/09/18

Keywords

Curiosity research
Game analysis
Game user research
n/a OA procedure

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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 E. Clua, L. Roque, A. Lugmayr, & P. Tuomi (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018: 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings (pp. 76-89). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11112). 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, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings. editor / Esteban Clua ; Licinio Roque ; Artur Lugmayr ; Pauliina Tuomi. Cham : Springer, 2018. pp. 76-89 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Gómez Maureira, MA & Kniestedt, I 2018, Games that Make Curious: An Exploratory Survey into Digital Games that Invoke Curiosity. in E Clua, L Roque, A Lugmayr & P Tuomi (eds), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018: 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11112, Springer, Cham, pp. 76-89, 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 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, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings. ed. / Esteban Clua; Licinio Roque; Artur Lugmayr; Pauliina Tuomi. Cham: Springer, 2018. p. 76-89 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11112).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › 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 Clua E, Roque L, Lugmayr A, Tuomi P, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2018: 17th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 17–20, 2018, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2018. p. 76-89. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_7

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