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Measuring the effects of social networking features on player motivation and engagement

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 07:49 authored by Lindsay WellsLindsay Wells, Ian LewisIan Lewis, Kristy de SalasKristy de Salas
Social Networking Services (SNSs) have become a powerful and ubiquitous form of social software with applications in a wide range of fields. Modern SNSs such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter provide functionality for developers to integrate social features into their applications. Game developers have used this to produce highly popular social games, notably ones created by the company Zynga which reports over 240 million monthly active users. Despite the apparent popularity of social games, there exists a lack of scholarly justification for the inclusion of social networking features in games. Nonetheless, game developers operate under the assumption that these features motivate and engage players, and attract new users. Rather than continue this assumption, this study performed an experiment informed by established approaches to examining the effects of motivation and engagement, designed to measure the effects of in-game social networking features on players.

History

Publication title

Proceedings of CGAMES 2013 USA

Editors

Q Mehdi, A Elmaghraby, I Marshall, JW Jaromczyk, R Ragade, BG Zapirain, DJ Chang, et al

Pagination

11-18

ISBN

978-1-4799-0820-2

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

IEEE

Place of publication

USA

Event title

CGAMES 2013 USA - 18th Conference on Computer Games: AI-Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games

Event Venue

Kentucky, USA

Date of Event (Start Date)

2013-07-30

Date of Event (End Date)

2013-08-01

Rights statement

Copyright 2013 IEEE

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Animation, video games and computer generated imagery services

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