Mobile Game Research Articles

Efficacy of kaleidoscope, virtual reality, and video games to alleviate dental anxiety during local anesthesia in children: a randomized clinical trial.

Distraction is a technique used to divert a patient's attention from unpleasant procedures. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of kaleidoscopy, virtual reality, and video games in reducing anxiety and pain during invasive dental procedures in children. Sixty-six children aged 6 to 9 years were randomly assigned to three groups during local anesthesia administration: Group 1 (kaleidoscope), Group 2 (virtual reality), and Group 3 (mobile video games). The anxiety of the children was evaluated using physiological measures (heart rate) at three different time points: before, during, and after the procedure. The Raghavendra, Madhuri, and Sujata pictorial scale was used as a subjective measure before and after the procedure. Subjective measures of pain were assessed using the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale. The data were statistically analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. In the intergroup comparison, there were no statistically significant differences in the physiological measures of anxiety scores between the three groups before, during, and after distraction. Raghavendra, Madhuri, and Sujata pictorial scale scores were assessed before and after distraction, but no statistically significant differences were observed. Among the three groups, the children in Group 2 showed a significant reduction in pain scores. Compared with kaleidoscopes and video games, virtual reality is a promising distraction technique for reducing dental fear, anxiety, and pain during local anesthesia administration in children.

The Effects of Smartphone Addiction on Academic Performance Among Undergraduate Medical Students in Karnataka, India: A Multi-centric Study.

Background and objective While smartphones offer various benefits, addiction to them among young people poses a serious problem for parents and educators globally. Several studies have tried to assess the impact of the excessive use of/addiction to smartphoneson students' overall academic performance. While a few studies have found a positive impact, most have observed a negative impact, mainly in the form of deterioration of mental and physical healthand academic performance of students. In light of this, we conducted this study in three medical colleges in Karnataka, India with the objectives of determining the effect of smartphone addiction on the academic performance of undergraduate medical students and to identify the risk factors associated with it. Material and methods This cross-sectional study, conducted between July 2022 and October 2023, involved undergraduate medical students from Yenepoya Medical College, Subbaiah Institute of Medical Sciences, and Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Science. A total of 481 students were enrolled by stratified random sampling. Data were collected with the help of Google Forms by using a pre-tested questionnaire. Mobile phone addiction was assessed by using the smartphone addiction scale-short version (SAS-SV). Results Among 481 students, 211 (43.9%)were found to be mobile phone addicts. An independent t-test showed that academic performance was negatively affected in students who were mobile phone addicts. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed several factors significantly associated with mobile phone addiction, including male gender, regular mobile gaming, seeking recognition/popularity through social media, frequent smartphone checking, perceiving smartphone use as more attractive than other activities, limited co-curricular activities, and increased smartphone use during periods of depression or anxiety. Conclusions Based on our findings, smartphone addiction has a negative impact on the academic performance of students. To mitigate this issue, educational institutions should integrate efforts to tackle smartphone addictioninto their curricula and prioritize addressing the identified risk factors.

Factors Influencing Indonesian Mobile Gamers on Repurchase Intention in Freemium Mobile Game With Perval

Factors Influencing Indonesian Mobile Gamers on Repurchase Intention in Freemium Mobile Game With Perval

THE INFLUENCE OF ENJOYMENT, SOCIAL VALUE, AND CONTINUED USE INTENTION TOWARDS BATTLE PASS PURCHASE INTENTION IN GENSHIN IMPACT

This study aims to analyze the influence of enjoyment, social value and continued use intention towards Purchase Intention of a virtual item in a mobile game such as Battle Pass offered in Genshin Impact. This research design is descriptive which describes the variables in a situation of interest of the researcher. The sampling technique used cross-sectional where data was gathered once during a period from a specific group. There were 126 respondents in Jakarta who were consumers/players that have had purchased Battle Pass but only 98 data are valid for analysis. The questionnaires are distributed online and in this research data analysis was carried out using the Partial Least Square - Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-sem) method. Based on the research results, enjoyment, social value and continued use intention can indicate purchase intention positively and significantly. With the results obtained, researchers hope that Genshin Impact developer (Hoyoverse) can get more information in regards to creating a strategy to increase battle pass purchase intention.

Research on the Development Strategy of Chinese Second-Dimensional Mobile Games - A Case Study Based on Genshin Impact

With the rapid development of technology and the continuous growth of people's entertainment needs, second-dimensional mobile games have become an undeniable force in the global gaming market, with limitless prospects and business opportunities. However, to stand out in this fiercely competitive market, it is still necessary to carefully explore the development strategies and make judgments and decisions that fit the times. This paper takes the development of Genshin Impact, a leading Chinese second-dimensional game, as a specific case, and uses the SWOT analysis method to explore its advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and threats in development, thereby studying the current state of the second-dimensional mobile gaming industry. The research results show that Genshin Impact has the advantages of a large second-dimensional user base with strong spending power and significant resource investment by its developer, miHoYo; but also faces the disadvantage of a significant reduction in player numbers; at the same time, it encounters opportunities with the increase in residents' income and the rapid development of cloud gaming platforms; as well as threats from intense market competition and strict game regulatory policies in China. Furthermore, based on the results of the SWOT analysis, this paper provides suggestions for strengthening innovation and cooperation, increasing game publicity efforts, improving regulatory response capabilities, and expanding revenue channels, pointing the way for the future development of Genshin Impact and the second-dimensional mobile gaming industry.

Future behavioural of console gamers and mobile gamers: are they differ?

Future behavioural of console gamers and mobile gamers: are they differ?

Cognitive Remediation Game of Selecting Tools Independently for Mentally Disordered Patients

Cognitive impairment is one of the negative effects of schizophrenia. To treat this, cognitive remediation could serve as an option to improve the cognitive performance of the sufferers. In this line, Doctor Herdaetha developed a computer-based game module to assist psychiatrists in performing cognitive remediation treatment during the recovery period of patients. However, patients could not utilize the game module without the assistance of psychiatrists, making it ineffective and inefficient. Given these considerations, a mobile Selecting Tool game was created as an independent cognitive remediation medium for schizophrenia patients during their recovery period. The game was created using a waterfall model and involved multiple review and discussion sessions with psychiatrists. The results revealed that the game was well-functioning and could be played independently.

Negative Emotional Value of Players: Exploring the Time Investment Dimension from Chinese Mobile Game Players’ Reviews

This study delved into the concept of “time investment” by examining negative comments from players. It conducted a comprehensive analysis of how time investment and external motivation influence players’ emotional experiences, drawing from self-determination theory (SDT). Nonetheless, there has been limited exploration of the origins and significance of players’ negative emotions. The study employed a mixed-methods approach. Initially, it constructed a radar chart representing time investment by analyzing textual reviews from Chinese players across six distinct mobile game types and creating thematic models with BERTopic. Subsequently, the initial machine learning results were confirmed through a questionnaire survey (n = 1028), resulting in the identification of five primary time investment dimensions: in-game experience time investment, learning time investment, social time investment, emotional time investment, and economic time investment. The study unveils the impact of external motivation on players’ emotions and assessments, all from the viewpoint of players. It also offers an expanded perspective within SDT for the exploration of external motivation. The findings present a fresh theoretical outlook and research framework for game designers and the human–computer interaction (HCI) field. Additionally, they offer new insights into the concept of time as perceived by players.

Study of learning climate, mobile game addiction, learning attitude, and learning motivation with teaching attraction as the moderator – evidence from higher education in Macau

Study of learning climate, mobile game addiction, learning attitude, and learning motivation with teaching attraction as the moderator – evidence from higher education in Macau

ANALISIS SENTIMEN APLIKASI MOBILE LEGENDS : BANG BANG MENGGUNAKAN LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION

E-sports or electronic sports, is a video game competition in which players make video games as an alternative to officially recognized sports that have various values in the fields of sport, economics, social, achievement, and knowledge. Mobile Legends : Bang Bang is a mobile video game that goes into the multiplayer online battle arena genre (MOBA). These opinions need to be taken into account as input in the evaluation to ensure that the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang app can make a good impact on its users. In this study, data from the Google Play Store was used to analyze user responses to applications by classifying them into positive and negative categories. Furthermore, the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method is used to group user opinions and identify topics that are frequently discussed. The results of the analysis showed that the majority of users responded positively to the Mobile Legends : Bang Bang application (72,7%) compared to negative (27,3%). The most frequently appearing words also indicate that positive sentiment words are more dominant than negative sentiment words.

Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis

This study analyses the textual, visual and interactional modes employed in creating and representing Daenerys Targaryen in both Home Box Office TV show Game of Thrones and mobile game Reigns: Game of Thrones as a transmedia project to guide users’ construal of the notion of embodied power. The authors examine the structural, functional and semiotic elements that the two media orchestrate to represent how power is attained, developed and relinquished. The results indicate that the two texts/media put forward two different kinds of power (relations) and levels of users’ interactivity. The TV show employs a more linear and developmental conception of power characterizing Daenerys as a transferrable object of power while the game underlines a more dispersed and pervasive notion of power to decentre absolute power. The show deploys immersive cinematic representations/visual spectacle, converging/diverging serial narration that goes beyond the opulent mise-en-scène and complex scenes to attract users’ attention. As for the game, it deploys intellectual and emotional interactivity, choice and coherence that allow users to experience the story, mechanics and environment as users identify with Daenerys. While the show introduces a host of socipolitical tools to maintain longer reign as different forms of governmentality, the game characterizes disciplinary power where subjects/users are offered training opportunities under the designer’s gaze to internalize a series of procedures and sociopolitical tactics. The findings reiterate Foucault’s notion of power as a system of relations, a capillary power that circulates and subjectifies, whilst subjects/users are spaces where subtractive and productive power are wielded, enacted and/or resisted. Each medium deploys its semiotic-specific resources to create meaning differently. While the TV show relies heavily on visual resources and narrative techniques to make meaning, the game mobilizes certain verbo-visual and interactive resources to make meaning. With the growing attention given to transmedia projects as a social practice with social meanings, this article claims to offer critical implications for social semioticians, film creators and game designers through a systematic analytical framework with a special focus on visual meanings.

Use of digital technologies for staff education and training programmes on newborn resuscitation and complication management: a scoping review

BackgroundPoor-quality care is linked to higher rates of neonatal mortality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Limited educational and upskilling opportunities for healthcare professionals, particularly those who work in remote...

The Games Design Accesbility For Gamer With Neurological Disorder

Computer games have emerged in the past decade as potential media beyond entertainment. Despite its popularity, game accessibility remains a major concern of various researchers. Children population with motor disabilities is a potential target for developing entertainment or therapeutic support games due to their interest to play. This paper presents: (1) a framework for mobile games for children with motor disability using simple hand postures and (2) xgboost decision tree as a hand posture recognizer (98.48 percent training accuracy and 96.76 percent testing accuracy) as a prototype of hand posture-based commands as assistive technology to interact with games.

DAMPAK MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP PURCHASE INTENTION ITEM VIRTUAL PADA GAME ONLINE GENSHIN IMPACT

Genshin Impact quickly rose to fame as one of the most played mobile games in the world after gaining widespread recognition. Many gamers, especially those who are truly dedicated to gaming, have engaged in this practice of purchasing virtual goods. The main objective of this research is to measure the impact of Twitter as a social media platform on interest in purchasing in-game products in the Genshin Impact video game. Using IBM SPSS version 26, this research uses quantitative analysis tools. One hundred people participated in this research by filling out a questionnaire sent to them via Direct Message (DM) by the official Twitter account @GenshinImpact. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, and the number of samples was 100. A series of tests, including validity and reliability tests as well as statistical analysis and coefficient of determination, were used to analyze the data. This research found that the intention to purchase virtual goods (Y) was influenced positively and significantly by the social media variable (X). Key words: Media Social, Purchase Intention, Item Virtual

Model Touch Pointing and Detect Parkinson's Disease via a Mobile Game

Touch pointing is one of the primary interaction actions on mobile devices. In this research, we aim to (1) model touch pointing for people with Parkinson's Disease (PD), and (2) detect PD via touch pointing. We created a mobile game called MoleBuster in which a user performs a sequence of pointing actions. Our study with 40 participants shows that PD participants exhibited distinct pointing behavior. PD participants were much slower and had greater variances in movement time (MT), while their error rate was slightly lower than age-matched non-PD participants, indicating PD participants traded speed for accuracy. The nominal width Finger-Fitts law showed greater fitness than Fitts' law, suggesting this model should be adopted in lieu of Fitts' law to guide mobile interface design for PD users. We also proposed a CNN-Transformer-based neural network model to detect PD. Taking touch pointing data and comfort rating of finger movement as input, this model achieved an AUC of 0.97 and sensitivity of 0.95 in leave-one-user-out cross-validation. Overall, our research contributes models that reveal the temporal and spatial characteristics of touch pointing for PD users, and provide a new method (CNN-Transformer model) and a mobile game (MoleBuster) for convenient PD detection.

Leisure Activity Pattern Among Non-Tribal Paramedical Male College Students of Tripura: A Cross-sectional Study

The present research aimed to study the leisure activity pattern among non-tribal paramedical male college students of Tripura. A total of 500 students participated voluntarily. The age (years) of the students is 19.4± 1.20; height (cm.) 160.2 ± 7.14; weight (Kg.) and BMI (Kg. / m2) 22.4 ± 2.25. Three prime leisure activities chosen by the students are internet surfing, physical exercise, and yoga. In net surfing, playing mobile games comes to the first category of choice, followed by viewing web series and watching movies. Most of the students uses the gym as their place of physical activity, while others do freehand exercise, football, and cricket playing. No serious health issues have been reported.

The relationship between object-based spatial ability and virtual navigation performance

Spatial navigation is a multi-faceted behaviour drawing on many different aspects of cognition. Visuospatial abilities, such as mental rotation and visuospatial working memory, in particular, may be key factors. A range of tests have been developed to assess visuospatial processing and memory, but how such tests relate to navigation ability remains unclear. This understanding is important to advance tests of navigation for disease monitoring in various disorders (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease) where spatial impairment is an early symptom. Here, we report the use of an established mobile gaming app, Sea Hero Quest (SHQ), as a measure of navigation ability in a sample of young, predominantly female university students (N = 78; 20; female = 74.3%; mean age = 20.33 years). We used three separate tests of navigation embedded in SHQ: wayfinding, path integration and spatial memory in a radial arm maze. In the same participants, we also collected measures of mental rotation (Mental Rotation Test), visuospatial processing (Design Organization Test) and visuospatial working memory (Digital Corsi). We found few strong correlations across our measures. Being good at wayfinding in a virtual navigation test does not mean an individual will also be good at path integration, have a superior memory in a radial arm maze, or rate themself as having a strong sense of direction. However, we observed that participants who were good in the wayfinding task of SHQ tended to perform well on the three visuospatial tasks examined here, and to also use a landmark strategy in the radial maze task. These findings help clarify the associations between different abilities involved in spatial navigation.

Analysis of Augmented Reality Utilization as Learning Media in Primary Schools

Learning media plays an important role in increasing the effectiveness of delivering material in elementary schools according to the independent curriculum. The aim of this research is to discuss the use of Augmented Reality technology as a learning medium in elementary schools. Augmented Reality enables interactive visualization of material objects, increasing student interest and understanding. The research method used is qualitative with literature study techniques to analyze the use of Augmented Reality as a learning medium in elementary schools. Data from relevant journals was analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods. The research results show that Augmented Reality, which was originally developed for mobile games, has been adapted into an interesting and fun learning tool for students. Augmented Reality is considered a solution to improve the quality of education by utilizing digital technology. The increase in learning outcomes and students' ability to build knowledge based on learning experiences is proof of the effectiveness of using Augmented Reality media in learning in elementary schools. Thus, the use of Augmented Reality in learning can make a positive contribution to achieving educational goals.

Becoming Bond: Player Perspective in the 007 Electronic Games

Drawing on game studies and James Bond scholarship, and gleaning from advertisements and interviews with arcade owners and game designers, this article investigates the numerous 007 electronic games such as pinball games, computer games, video games, handheld games, and mobile games. Bond games are marketed as products that grant the player the opportunity to be Bond. This article explores that promise by analysing the various perspectives that the games offer. Pinball games allow the playing to complete tasks like the famous agent, and the computer/video games permit the player to become Bond and play as him via first and third person perspectives. By examining players’ perspectives this article will expand upon the limited scholarship on 007 games.

Unveiling the Impact of Mobile Game Addiction and Negative e-WOM on Purchase Intention in Online Gaming Applications

This study investigated the impact of mobile game addiction, loyalty, and negative e-WOM on purchase intention in online gaming applications, using a questionnaire distributed to PUBG Mobile players through game communities on WhatsApp and Telegram. The study found that online game addiction has a significant effect on online game loyalty, and online game loyalty has a significant effect on purchase intention. Additionally, online game addiction has a significant effect on negative e-WOM, and negative e-WOM has a significant effect on purchase intention. Game addiction also has a significant effect on purchase intention. These findings contribute to filling the research gap in the literature on the relationship between game addiction, loyalty, negative e-WOM, and purchase intention. The study emphasizes the importance of game developers and marketers understanding and managing these factors to encourage purchase intention in online gaming applications.