theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper

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This paper reviews the psychophysiological method in game research. The use of psychophysiological measurements provides an objective, continuous, real-time, non-invasive, precise, and sensitive way to assess the game experience, but for best results it requires carefully controlled experiments

Dr. Mark Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Gambling Studies at the Nottingham Trent University. He is internationally known for his work into gambling and gaming addictions and has won many awards for his research including the John

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We consider modern computer narratives as deterministic finite automata with identified initial, winning, and losing states. We discuss various interesting temporal properties in the context of narratives, which range from simple reachability to more complex concepts such as the degree of “pointlessness”. These temporal properties can be useful in model checking narratives, but first an appropriate representation is needed. We introduce the Narrative Flow Graph (NFG), a class of 1-safe Petri Net, suitable for modelling computer narratives compactly, and the higher-level Programmable NFG (PNFG) language that compiles down to NFGs. We show how NFGs can be automatically encoded as transition relations for the NuSMV model checker, and use high-level knowledge from the PNFG language to reduce the number of boolean variables required. We finally provide an experimental analysis of small, medium, and large narratives. 1

The development and validation of tools and measurements for gaming experiences is an ongoing challenge for game studies researcher. This paper describes a questionnaire that collects information on fine-grained gaming preferences across genres. The data is analyzed quantitatively. Results obtained

• Much quantitative social science research has explored video games ’ social impact using widely varied methods and approaches. • As light is sometimes studied as a wave and sometimes as a particle, video game research has used many perspectives. • It is difficult to compare some game research

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This paper presents Mammoth, a massively multiplayer game research framework designed for experimentation in an academic setting. Mammoth provides a modular architecture where different components, such as the network engine, the replication engine, or interest management, can easily be replaced