Development and validation of the player experience inventory: A scale to measure player experiences at the level of functional and psychosocial consequences

•Scale to measure player experience at functional and psychosocial level concurrently.•Development and validation carried out with 64 games experts and 529 players.•Results support discriminant and convergent validity, plus configural invariance.•Economical instrument, measuring 10 constructs with 3...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:International journal of human-computer studies Jg. 135; S. 102370
Hauptverfasser: Abeele, Vero Vanden, Spiel, Katta, Nacke, Lennart, Johnson, Daniel, Gerling, Kathrin
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2020
Schlagworte:
Game experience
Games user research
GUR
Means-End theory
Measurement instrument
Player experience
Scale development
Scale validation
Games user research
Measurement instrument
GUR
Scale validation
PX
Game experience
Player experience
Scale development
Means-End theory
ISSN:1071-5819, 1095-9300
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:•Scale to measure player experience at functional and psychosocial level concurrently.•Development and validation carried out with 64 games experts and 529 players.•Results support discriminant and convergent validity, plus configural invariance.•Economical instrument, measuring 10 constructs with 3 items each.•Suited to measure PX across a variety of game genres and gamified applications. Games User Research (GUR) focuses on measuring, analysing and understanding player experiences to optimise game designs. Hence, GUR experts aim to understand how specific game design choices are experienced by players, and how these lead to specific emotional responses. An instrument, providing such actionable insight into player experience, specifically designed by and for GUR was thus far lacking. To address this gap, the Player Experience Inventory (PXI) was developed, drawing on Means-End theory and measuring player experience both at the level of Functional Consequences, (i.e., the immediate experiences as a direct result of game design choices, such as audiovisual appeal or ease-of-control) and at the level of Psychosocial Consequences, (i.e., the second-order emotional experiences, such as immersion or mastery). Initial construct and item development was conducted in two iterations with 64 GUR experts. Next, the scale was validated and evaluated over five studies and populations, totalling 529 participants. Results support the theorized structure of the scale and provide evidence for both discriminant and convergent validity. Results also show that the scale performs well over different sample sizes and studies, supporting configural invariance. Hence, the PXI provides a reliable and theoretically sound tool for researchers to measure player experience and investigate how game design choices are linked to emotional responses.
ISSN:1071-5819
1095-9300
DOI:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.102370