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The Influence of Personality Traits and Game Design Elements on Player Enjoyment: An Empirical Study on GWAPs for Linguistics

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The present research investigates the effects of Personality Traits (PTs) and Game Design Elements (GDEs) on Player Enjoyment (PE) in the context of serious games. Three Games With A Purpose (GWAPs) were created to revise and correct automatically tagged Parts-of-Speech (PoS) of the Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural (COSER, [5], ‘Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish’), the most extensive collection of spoken dialectal Spanish data. The ultimate goal of the project is to build a morpho-syntactically annotated and parsed corpus of the European Spanish dialects through a crowd-sourced gaming environment, whereby players assign a PoS, i.e., a grammatical category (e.g., verb, noun, adjective, pronoun), to a word in an input text thereby confirming or correcting the automatically tagged PoS. This task has been implemented in three GWAPs: Agentes, Tesoros, and Anotatlón. Each game concept includes a set of GDEs (e.g., rewards, challenges, leaderboards, among others) to investigate their influence on PE. This study, which includes 54 participants, shows associations between PTs and GDEs, and some GDEs yielded a positive correlation with PE. These findings hold the potential to inspire future research and guide the design of future serious games.

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    In this study, the terms ‘Interest/Enjoyment’ and ‘PE’ are used interchangeably since the former serves as a measure for the latter.

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This research is part of the project ‘A (Respeaking and) Collaborative Game-Based Approach to Building a Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects’ funded by the Flemish Research Fund (FWO; I000418N; PI: M. Bouzouita; 2018–2023).

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  1. HCI and eHealth, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

    Rosa Lilia Segundo Díaz & Karin Coninx

  2. LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Rosa Lilia Segundo Díaz & Véronique Hoste

  3. Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt University - tUL - Flanders Make, Hasselt, Belgium

    Gustavo Rovelo

  4. Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Miriam Bouzouita

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Segundo Díaz, R.L., Rovelo, G., Bouzouita, M., Hoste, V., Coninx, K. (2024). The Influence of Personality Traits and Game Design Elements on Player Enjoyment: An Empirical Study on GWAPs for Linguistics. In: Dondio, P., et al. Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49065-1_20

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