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The study explores how the design of quest types and different players’ gaming motivations might affect knowledge acquisitions in an online role-playing game environment. An experiment was conducted to collect data. The results showed that “immersion motivation” had the most significant influence on knowledge acquisitions. The bounty-collection quest significantly affected the procedure knowledge of subjects with high immersion motivation, whereas the fed express quest affected declarative knowledge of subjects with high immersion motivation.
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Lee, J., Chao, CY. (2009). The Effects of Quest Types and Gaming Motivations on Players’ Knowledge Acquisitions in an Online Role-Playing Game Environment. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting in Various Application Domains. HCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02583-9_39
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