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Modeling Motivation in a Social Network Game Using Player-Centric Traits and Personality Traits

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People are drawn to play different types of videogames and find enjoyment in a range of gameplay experiences. Envisaging a representative game player or persona allows game designers to personalize game content; however, there are many ways to characterize players and little guidance on which approaches best model player behavior and preference. To provide knowledge about how player characteristics contribute to game experience, we investigate how personality traits as well as player styles from the BrianHex model moderate the prediction of player motivation with a social network game. Our results show that several player characteristics impact motivation, expressed in terms of enjoyment and effort. We also show that player enjoyment and effort, as predicted by our models, impact players’ in-game behaviors, illustrating both the predictive power and practical utility of our models for guiding user adaptation.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C9, Canada

    Max V. Birk & Regan L. Mandryk

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Dereck Toker & Cristina Conati

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  1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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  2. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Kalina Bontcheva

  3. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Owen Conlan

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Birk, M.V., Toker, D., Mandryk, R.L., Conati, C. (2015). Modeling Motivation in a Social Network Game Using Player-Centric Traits and Personality Traits. In: Ricci, F., Bontcheva, K., Conlan, O., Lawless, S. (eds) User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. UMAP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20267-9_2

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