Tuesday, October 27
11:30-11:45 AM
EDT
Room 2

Mobile Gameplay From the Perspective of Video Game Genre

Brief Paper ID: 58084
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    Boaventura DaCosta
    Solers Research Group
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    Soonhwa Seok
    Zöe Center for ABA and Development Services

Abstract: Genre offers a way to describe and understand video games. With games being used more and more outside of entertainment, to include educational contexts, video game genre may offer a way to better understand gamers. This study examined gamers in the contexts of their mobile gameplay with platform viewed as an important consideration in studying genre, as it has been largely ignored in academic studies. Specifically, the study investigated gamers’ preferred gaming platform; how often, where, and why they played; the most attractive game characteristics sought; and the most frequently played genres. Factors possibly explaining genre were also examined, to include relationships between genre and factors commonly studied in educational contexts, such as age and gender, as well as academic grades. The intent of this investigation is to further the dialogue among educators, practitioners, and researchers interested in video games from an educational perspective.

Presider: Pamela Groves, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - UTeach Program

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