Gamelike features might not improve data
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Gamelike features might not improve data.
Many psychological experiments require participants to complete lots of trials in a monotonous task, which often induces boredom. An increasingly popular approach to alleviate such boredom is to incorporate gamelike features into standard experimental tasks. Games are assumed to be interesting and, hence, motivating, and better motivated participants might produce better data (with fewer lapses...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Research Methods
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1554-3528
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0264-3