A Palette of Deepened Emotions: Exploring Emotional Challenge in Virtual Reality Games
ConferenceCORE conference ranking: CORE A*Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'20), 2020
In short
Emotional challenge asks players to deal with difficult emotions rather than difficult gameplay. Across two experiments we compared emotional challenge, alone and combined with conventional challenge, in virtual reality and on a PC.
Key findings
- Emotional challenge evoked a wider range of emotions on both platforms.
- Combined with conventional challenge, it broadened emotional responses only in VR.
- VR improved emotional responses, appreciation, immersion and presence in both experiments.
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APA citation
Peng, X., Huang, J., Denisova, A., Chen, H., Tian, F., & Wang, H. (2020, April). A Palette of Deepened Emotions: Exploring Emotional Challenge in Virtual Reality Games. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'20) (pp. 1-13).
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