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The Player Experience Inventory Bench: Providing Games User Researchers Actionable Insight into Player Experiences

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Aqeel Haider,

Kathrin Gerling,

Vero Vanden AbeeleAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419898

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In this paper, we present PXI Bench, an online tool to provide actionable insight into the player experience, designed by and for games user researchers. Based on the Player Experience Inventory (PXI), it provides detailed information about the baseline theoretical model and supports a layman analysis of PXI questionnaire data. Moreover, it provides an interactive feature to explore benchmark PXI data of existing game evaluations. This helps a GUR expert to explore and compare their own game data to data from a relevant genre or specific game.

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CHI PLAY '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

November 2020

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ISBN:9781450375870

DOI:10.1145/3383668

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Pejman Mirza-Babaei
Ontario Tech University, Canada
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Carlton University, Canada
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KU Leuven, Belgium
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Max Birk
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

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