The Context Dependency of Two Popular Persuasive Game Design Principles

This paper explores the context dependency of two popular persuasive game design principles in order to improve their effective implementation. Because of limited guidelines the choice and suitability of a persuasive game design principle is often based on a designer’s own intuition. To prevent the use of badly chosen design principles that can be counterproductive, other authors showed the importance of tailoring the persuasive game design principles to various gamer personalities. In this paper we aim to further explore the context dependency of persuasive game design principles and suggest how designers can take this into account when selecting and implementing these principles. Noticing the underexposed role of attitudes concerning persuasion through technology (including persuasive game design principles) we chose the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a framework for our exploration. Findings show different scenarios that describe how both persuasive game design principles can either enhance or reduce the motivation and/or ability of the player to elaborate on the persuasive message of the game. Although theoretical and explorative, this paper may form a starting point for further experimental research on the context dependency of persuasive game design principles in order to improve their effective implementation.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy Analysi

Happiness and Joy

Happiness and joy involve feelings of positive engagement which are prototypically expressed through the face, voice, and body. Joyful smiles tend to be strong and involve both eye constriction (the Duchenne marker) and mouth opening. Through approximately 2 months of age, joyful expressions are primarily rooted in physiological arousal. Positive emotional expressions then quickly become more social, occurring in face-to-face interactions with caregivers as infants increasingly derive psychological meaning from individuals and events. Beginning in the second half of the first year of life, infants’ expressions of positive emotion are increasingly incorporated into patterns of intentional communication. Between 1 and 2 years of age, positive expressivity is increasingly responsive to parental affective cues during pretense play. Preschoolers’ between 2 and 5 years of age utilize specific forms of positive emotion expressions to foster affiliation with their peers. By 8 years of age, children voluntarily control their expressions of positive emotion depending on the interpersonal context. These early expressions of joy are associated with later social competence, including reduced behavioral inhibition and reticence in reaction to novelty, compliance with parental requests, tolerance of new experiences, and attachment security. Further, positive expressivity is also linked to later life outcomes, primarily life satisfaction and overall well-being in adulthood. Positive emotion expression varies as a function of gender as well as cultural differences in the emotional significance and perceptions of positive expressions. Finally, the development of joyful expressivity is differentially sensitive to a variety of risk conditions, including maternal depression, prematurity, infant blindness, Down syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder