TY - GEN
T1 - Replay penalties in cognitive games
AU - Easterday, Matthew W.
AU - Jo, I. Yelee
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Replay penalties that punish players by making them repeat progress are ubiquitous in video games yet noticeably absent from tutors, creating a dilemma for designers seeking to combine games and tutors to maximize interest and learning. On the one hand, replay penalties can be frustrating and waste instructional time, on the other, they may increase excitement and prevent gaming the system. This study tested the effects of replay penalties on learning and interest. In a randomized, controlled experiment with a two-group, between subjects design, 100 University students played two versions of Policy World, an educational game for teaching policy argument, with and without penalties that forced students to replay parts of the game. Results showed that replay penalties decreased learning and interest. These findings suggest a minimize penalties principle for designing cognitive games.
AB - Replay penalties that punish players by making them repeat progress are ubiquitous in video games yet noticeably absent from tutors, creating a dilemma for designers seeking to combine games and tutors to maximize interest and learning. On the one hand, replay penalties can be frustrating and waste instructional time, on the other, they may increase excitement and prevent gaming the system. This study tested the effects of replay penalties on learning and interest. In a randomized, controlled experiment with a two-group, between subjects design, 100 University students played two versions of Policy World, an educational game for teaching policy argument, with and without penalties that forced students to replay parts of the game. Results showed that replay penalties decreased learning and interest. These findings suggest a minimize penalties principle for designing cognitive games.
KW - educational games
KW - intelligent tutoring
KW - penalties
KW - serious games
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_48
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_48
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958531480
SN - 9783319072203
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 388
EP - 397
BT - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 12th International Conference, ITS 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2014
Y2 - 5 June 2014 through 9 June 2014
ER -