TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating the effects of individual cognitive styles on collaborative gameplay
AU - Alharthi, Sultan A.
AU - Raptis, George E.
AU - Katsini, Christina
AU - Dolgov, Igor
AU - Nacke, Lennart E.
AU - Toups Dugas, Phoebe O.
N1 - Funding Information:
Lennart Nacke thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery (RGPIN-2018-06576, Developing and Analyzing Immersive Game Technologies and Components for Motivation, Wellbeing, and Guidance), NSERC CREATE SWaGUR, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI, 35819, John R. Evans Leaders Fund), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) under the Active and Assisted Living (AAL) Programme, and Mitacs for funding his research team. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. IIS-1651532 and IIS-1619273. Authors’ addresses: S. A. Alharthi, University of Jeddah, P.O. Box 30001, MSC CS, Jeddah 23218, Saudi Arabia; email: [email protected]; G. E. Raptis and C. Katsini, Human Opsis, Patras 26221, Greece; emails: {raptisg, katsinic}@upnet.gr; I. Dolgov and Z O. Toups, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001, MSC CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003; emails: [email protected], [email protected]; L. E. Nacke, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Canada; email: [email protected]. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]. © 2021 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. 1073-0516/2021/07-ART23 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3445792
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PY - 2021/8/11
Y1 - 2021/8/11
N2 - In multiplayer collaborative games, players need to coordinate their actions and synchronize their efforts effectively to succeed as a team; thus, individual differences can impact teamwork and gameplay. This article investigates the effects of cognitive styles on teams engaged in collaborative gaming activities. Fifty-four individuals took part in a mixed-methods user study; they were classified as field-dependent (FD) or independent (FI) based on a field-dependent-independent (FD-I) cognitive-style-elicitation instrument. Three groups of teams were formed, based on the cognitive style of each team member: FD-FD, FD-FI, and FI-FI. We examined collaborative gameplay in terms of team performance, cognitive load, communication, and player experience. The analysis revealed that FD-I cognitive style affected the performance and mental load of teams. We expect the findings to provide useful insights on understanding how cognitive styles influence collaborative gameplay.
AB - In multiplayer collaborative games, players need to coordinate their actions and synchronize their efforts effectively to succeed as a team; thus, individual differences can impact teamwork and gameplay. This article investigates the effects of cognitive styles on teams engaged in collaborative gaming activities. Fifty-four individuals took part in a mixed-methods user study; they were classified as field-dependent (FD) or independent (FI) based on a field-dependent-independent (FD-I) cognitive-style-elicitation instrument. Three groups of teams were formed, based on the cognitive style of each team member: FD-FD, FD-FI, and FI-FI. We examined collaborative gameplay in terms of team performance, cognitive load, communication, and player experience. The analysis revealed that FD-I cognitive style affected the performance and mental load of teams. We expect the findings to provide useful insights on understanding how cognitive styles influence collaborative gameplay.
KW - Cognitive styles
KW - collaboration
KW - gameplay
KW - multiplayer games
KW - team coordination
KW - teams
KW - teamwork
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107540264&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3445792
DO - 10.1145/3445792
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107540264
SN - 1073-0516
VL - 28
JO - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
JF - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
IS - 4
M1 - 23
ER -