OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entertainment Computing is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A novel hybrid bidirectional unidirectional LSTM network for dynamic hand gesture recognition with Leap Motion	63
Factors affecting continuous purchase intention of fashion products on social E-commerce: SOR model and the mediating effect	45
A systematic review on the impacts of game-based learning on argumentation skills	40
“Nice to see you virtually”: Thoughtful design and evaluation of virtual avatar of the other user in AR and VR based telexistence systems	31
Variations in visual sensitivity predict motion sickness in virtual reality	30
Learning through play: Gamification model in university-level distance learning	29
Systematic literature review on health effects of playing Pokémon Go	26
The key elements of gamification in corporate training – The Delphi method	26
Playful-consumption experiences and subjective well-being: Children’s smartphone usage	25
Serious games to improve social and emotional intelligence in children with autism	25
Which are the patterns of video game use in Spanish school adolescents? Gender as a key factor	23
Designing for meaningful social interaction in digital serious games	21
Empowering vulnerable target groups with serious games and gamification	21
Exergames in formal school teaching: A pre-post longitudinal field study on the effects of a dance game on motor learning, physical enjoyment, and learning motivation	19
Design requirements for educational serious games with focus on player enjoyment	19
Boosting: Rank and skill deception in esports	18
When ignorance is bliss: The role of curiosity in online games adoption	17
Improving girls’ perception of computer science as a viable career option through game playing and design: Lessons from a systematic literature review	17
Individualization in serious games: A systematic review of the literature on the aspects of the players to adapt to	16
Serious games for people with mental disorders: State of the art of practices to maintain engagement and accessibility	16
An extensive structural model proposal to explain online gaming behaviors	15
Personalized content recommendations on smart TV: Challenges, opportunities, and future research directions	15
Interweaving gaming and educational technologies: Clustering and forecasting the trends of game-based learning research by bibliometric and visual analysis	15
Investigating Taiwan Instagram users’ behaviors for social media and social commerce development	15
The effects of juiciness in an action RPG	15

Let CONAN tell you a story: Procedural quest generation	14
How to play a MOOC: Practices and simulation	14
Evaluating the user experience of omnidirectional VR walking simulators	14
Quality of experience (QoE) assessment of games on workstations and mobile	14
The impact of video games on Students’ educational outcomes	13
Minecraft as a block building approach for developing spatial skills	13
Developing two game-based interventions for dyslexia therapeutic interventions using gamification and serious games approaches entertainment computing journal	12
A novel UML-based methodology for modeling adventure-based educational games	12
Robot magic show as testbed for humanoid robot interaction	12
Analysis of the user acceptance of exergaming (fall- preventive measure) – Tailored for Indian elderly using unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2) model	12
Beyond action video games: Differences in gameplay and ability preferences among gaming genres	12
Applying gamification design to a donation-based crowdfunding platform for improving user engagement	11
Data mining analytics investigate Facebook Live stream users’ behaviors and business models: The evidence from Thailand	11
PMG-Net: Persian music genre classification using deep neural networks	11
Towards an intelligent assistive system based on augmented reality and serious games	10
From traditional gaming to mobile gaming: Video game players' switching behaviour	10
Adaptive storytelling based on personality and preference modeling	10
Identifying cybersickness causes in virtual reality games using symbolic machine learning algorithms	10
Dynamic difficulty adjustment technique-based mobile vocabulary learning game for children with autism spectrum disorder	10
Analysis of the college underachievers’ transformation via gamified learning experience	10
A self-determination theory-based laboratory experiment on social aspects of playing multiplayer first-person shooter games	10
Collaboration or battle between minds? An attention training game through collaborative and competitive reinforcement	9
Stimulating children’s engagement with an educational serious videogame using Lean UX co-design	9
Examining the role of perceived value and consumer innovativeness on consumers’ intention to watch intellectual property films	9
Software architecture for digital game mechanics: A systematic literature review	9
Improving Learners’ Assessment and Evaluation in Crisis Management Serious Games: An Emotion-based Educational Data Mining Approach	9
An interactive greeting system using convolutional neural networks for emotion recognition	8
The Game Element and Mechanic (GEM) framework: A structural approach for implementing game elements and mechanics into game experiences	8
Current practice and challenges in coaching Esports players: An interview study with league of legends professional team coaches	8
Can we predict the Oscar winner? A machine learning approach with social network services	8
Gamifying online entrepreneurship education and digital entrepreneurial intentions: An empirical study	8
Playing first-person shooter games with machine learning techniques and methods using the VizDoom Game-AI research platform	8
Physioland – A serious game for physical rehabilitation of patients with neurological diseases	7
Digital gaming among adolescents in clinical settings: Do we underestimate this issue?	7
The mediating effect of fantasy on engagement in an AR game for learning	7
Exploring alternatives with Unreal Engine’s Blueprints Visual Scripting System	6
Classifying games in container terminal logistics field: A systematic review	6
The evaluation video quality in social clouds	6
Adaptive virtual reality horror games based on Machine learning and player modeling	6
What makes male gamers angry, sad, amused, and enthusiastic while playing violent video games?	6
Re-framing engagement for applied games: A conceptual framework	6
An interactive simulation-based game of a manufacturing process in heavy industry	6
Influence of visual background complexity and task difficulty on action video game players’ performance	6
Health and social impacts of playing Pokémon Go on various player groups	6
Learning through interactive artifacts: Personal fabrication using electrochromic displays to remember Atari women programmers	6
A close look into the storytelling process: The procedural nature of interactive digital narratives as learning opportunity	6
Surveilling the gamers: Privacy impacts of the video game industry	5
A modeling environment for reinforcement learning in games	5
A practical approach based on Bluetooth Low Energy and Neural Networks for indoor localization and targeted devices’ identification by smartphones	5
Evolution of global music trends: An exploratory and predictive approach based on Spotify data	5

The distant Horizon: Investigating the relationship between social sciences academic research and game development	5
HikePal: A mobile exergame to motivate people with intellectual disabilities to do outdoor physical activities	5
A comparative analysis of tools for developing location based games	5
Like a pro: Communication, camaraderie and group cohesion in the Amazonian esports scenario	5
The relationship among gameplay self-efficacy, competition anxiety, and the performance of eSports players	5
Identifying communities and fan practices in online retrogaming forums	5
The relationship between co-playing and socioemotional status among older-adult game players	5
Opening the world of contextually-specific player experiences	5
An investigation into generation Z’s mindsets of entertainment in an autonomous vehicle	5
It’s habit, not toxicity, driving hours spent in DOTA 2	4
Refining esports: A quantitative cartography of esports literature	4
Internet gaming disorder’s correspondence with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and game/in-game purchases among university students	4
Toward using effective elements in adults’ amblyopia treatment in a virtual reality-based gamified binocular application	4
Procedural generation of branching quests for games	4
Design of a serious games to improve resilience skills in youngsters	4
Replaying online games for flow experience and outcome expectations: An exploratory study for the moderating role of external locus of control based on Turkish gamers’ evaluations	4
Enhancing the learning process of folk dances using augmented reality and non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Typical opinions mining based on Douban film comments in animated movies	4
Serious video games and psychological support: A depression intervention among young cancer patients	4
Finding appropriate settings for fairness and engagement in a newly designed game through self-playing AI program: A case study using Japanese crossword game 'MyoGo Renju’	4
Digital gaming audiences: Awareness, without closeness	4
A new approach to compute deficiency number of Mahjong configurations	4
The role of motivation to change and mindsets in a game promoted for mental health	4
Nature of arcade games	3
What makes an ideal team? Analysis of Popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games	3
Online offensive behaviour in socialmedia: Detection approaches, comprehensive review and future directions	3
ACA game for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder	3
Office Madness: Investigating the impact of a game using a real life job and programming scenario on player experience and perceived short-term learning	3
Using gestural emotions recognised through a neural network as input for an adaptive music system in virtual reality	3
Comparing effectiveness of educational video games of different genres in computer science education	3
Improving Sleep-Wake Behaviors Using Mobile App Gamification	3
Coping with COVID-19 pandemic stressors: Comparisons between non-players and players, and levels of Game Transfer Phenomena	3
Auto-encoder neural network based prediction of Texas poker opponent's behavior	3
Managing the plot structure of character-based interactive narratives in games	3
The effect of fantasy on learning and recall of declarative knowledge in AR game-based learning	3
A new non-deterministic drama manager for adaptive interactive storytelling	3
User experience in a kinect-based conducting system for visualization of musical structure	3
Investigating sports behaviors and market in Taiwan for sports leisure and entertainment marketing online recommendations	3
Beyond the Game: Understanding why people enjoy viewing Twitch	3
Looking for archetypes: Applying game data mining to hearthstone decks	3
Researchers' commercial video game knowledge associated with differences in beliefs about the impact of gaming on human behavior	3
Desirable characteristics of games for older adults	3
Influencing factors for building social capital on live streaming websites	3
Teachers’ experience with digital games in Czech primary schools	3
Tagore and neuroscience: A non-linear multifractal study to encapsulate the evolution of Tagore songs over a century	3
Young people’s engagement with digital gaming cultures – Validating and developing the digital gaming relationship theory	2
Diabetes prediction using Hybrid Bagging Classifier	2
Top concerns of user experiences in Metaverse games: A text-mining based approach	2
Chronology of self-competition in virtual reality exergames: A historical review	2
Exploring reinforcement learning approaches for drafting in collectible card games	2
A qualitative exploration of the positive and negative experiences of individuals who play fantasy football	2
Understanding the “social” nature of digital games	2
On exploiting transformers for detecting explicit song lyrics	2
Understanding dance semantics using spatio-temporal features coupled GRU networks	2
Into the Unown: Improving location-based gamified crowdsourcing solutions for geo data gathering	2
StepAR: A personalized exergame for people with multiple sclerosis based on video-mapping	2
The influence of online multiplayer games on social capital and interdependent well-being in Japan	2
Assessing the mental state of attention using a neurofeedback system and serious game tool	2
Evaluation on game concentration with multi-scale fuzzy entropy based on EEG signals	2
Aligning story and gameplay through narrative goals	2
Two perspectives on gaming social capital among Korean adolescents’ gamers	2
Design and application of VR-based college English game teaching	2
Multiple Composite Scenarios: A Game-Based Methodology for the Prevention of Mental Disorders	2
A multi-method approach to compare presence, fear induction and desensitization in survival horror games within the reality-virtuality-continuum	2
Trans* and gender diverse players: Avatars and gender-alignment	2
ChildProtect: A parental control application for tracking hostile surfing content	2
Social accessibility in multiplayer games: Theory and praxis	2
Predicting subscription renewal using binary classification in World of Warcraft	2
Caught them all: Gaming disorder, motivations for playing and spending among core Pokémon Go players	2
Video games become more mainstream	2
Effects of conflicts on outcomes: The case of multiplayer online games	2
Repeated experience or a virtual nose to reduce simulator sickness? – Investigating prediction of the sensorial conflict theory and the rest-frame hypothesis in two virtual games	2