OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entertainment Computing is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors affecting continuous purchase intention of fashion products on social E-commerce: SOR model and the mediating effect	65
“Nice to see you virtually”: Thoughtful design and evaluation of virtual avatar of the other user in AR and VR based telexistence systems	37
Learning through play: Gamification model in university-level distance learning	36
The key elements of gamification in corporate training – The Delphi method	36
Variations in visual sensitivity predict motion sickness in virtual reality	34
Serious games to improve social and emotional intelligence in children with autism	33
Systematic literature review on health effects of playing Pokémon Go	30
Playful-consumption experiences and subjective well-being: Children’s smartphone usage	29
Empowering vulnerable target groups with serious games and gamification	24
Designing for meaningful social interaction in digital serious games	24
Design requirements for educational serious games with focus on player enjoyment	23
Individualization in serious games: A systematic review of the literature on the aspects of the players to adapt to	22
Improving girls’ perception of computer science as a viable career option through game playing and design: Lessons from a systematic literature review	20
Serious games for people with mental disorders: State of the art of practices to maintain engagement and accessibility	19
Boosting: Rank and skill deception in esports	19
Investigating Taiwan Instagram users’ behaviors for social media and social commerce development	19
When ignorance is bliss: The role of curiosity in online games adoption	18
Personalized content recommendations on smart TV: Challenges, opportunities, and future research directions	18
Minecraft as a block building approach for developing spatial skills	18
The impact of video games on Students’ educational outcomes	18
Interweaving gaming and educational technologies: Clustering and forecasting the trends of game-based learning research by bibliometric and visual analysis	18
How to play a MOOC: Practices and simulation	17
Applying gamification design to a donation-based crowdfunding platform for improving user engagement	16
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	16
Gamifying online entrepreneurship education and digital entrepreneurial intentions: An empirical study	16

Let CONAN tell you a story: Procedural quest generation	15
PMG-Net: Persian music genre classification using deep neural networks	15
Robot magic show as testbed for humanoid robot interaction	15
Data mining analytics investigate Facebook Live stream users’ behaviors and business models: The evidence from Thailand	14
Current practice and challenges in coaching Esports players: An interview study with league of legends professional team coaches	14
Developing two game-based interventions for dyslexia therapeutic interventions using gamification and serious games approaches entertainment computing journal	13
From traditional gaming to mobile gaming: Video game players' switching behaviour	13
Beyond action video games: Differences in gameplay and ability preferences among gaming genres	13
Improving Learners’ Assessment and Evaluation in Crisis Management Serious Games: An Emotion-based Educational Data Mining Approach	13
Towards an intelligent assistive system based on augmented reality and serious games	13
Identifying cybersickness causes in virtual reality games using symbolic machine learning algorithms	13
Examining the role of perceived value and consumer innovativeness on consumers’ intention to watch intellectual property films	12
The Game Element and Mechanic (GEM) framework: A structural approach for implementing game elements and mechanics into game experiences	12
A novel UML-based methodology for modeling adventure-based educational games	12
Analysis of the college underachievers’ transformation via gamified learning experience	12
Dynamic difficulty adjustment technique-based mobile vocabulary learning game for children with autism spectrum disorder	11
Can we predict the Oscar winner? A machine learning approach with social network services	11
Surveilling the gamers: Privacy impacts of the video game industry	10
Digital gaming among adolescents in clinical settings: Do we underestimate this issue?	10
Stimulating children’s engagement with an educational serious videogame using Lean UX co-design	10
Adaptive virtual reality horror games based on Machine learning and player modeling	9
Into the Unown: Improving location-based gamified crowdsourcing solutions for geo data gathering	9
Software architecture for digital game mechanics: A systematic literature review	9
Re-framing engagement for applied games: A conceptual framework	9
An interactive greeting system using convolutional neural networks for emotion recognition	8
The mediating effect of fantasy on engagement in an AR game for learning	8
Online offensive behaviour in socialmedia: Detection approaches, comprehensive review and future directions	8
Exploring alternatives with Unreal Engine’s Blueprints Visual Scripting System	8
Health and social impacts of playing Pokémon Go on various player groups	8
The effect of fantasy on learning and recall of declarative knowledge in AR game-based learning	8
Top concerns of user experiences in Metaverse games: A text-mining based approach	8
What makes male gamers angry, sad, amused, and enthusiastic while playing violent video games?	7
A close look into the storytelling process: The procedural nature of interactive digital narratives as learning opportunity	7
Learning through interactive artifacts: Personal fabrication using electrochromic displays to remember Atari women programmers	7
An investigation into generation Z’s mindsets of entertainment in an autonomous vehicle	7
Classifying games in container terminal logistics field: A systematic review	7
HikePal: A mobile exergame to motivate people with intellectual disabilities to do outdoor physical activities	7
Video games become more mainstream	7
Using gestural emotions recognised through a neural network as input for an adaptive music system in virtual reality	6
A comparative analysis of tools for developing location based games	6
Evolution of global music trends: An exploratory and predictive approach based on Spotify data	6
ACA game for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder	6
Identifying communities and fan practices in online retrogaming forums	6
Internet gaming disorder’s correspondence with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and game/in-game purchases among university students	6
Influence of visual background complexity and task difficulty on action video game players’ performance	6
Managing the plot structure of character-based interactive narratives in games	6
Procedural generation of branching quests for games	6
Serious video games and psychological support: A depression intervention among young cancer patients	6
What makes an ideal team? Analysis of Popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games	5
Opening the world of contextually-specific player experiences	5

The relationship among gameplay self-efficacy, competition anxiety, and the performance of eSports players	5
Refining esports: A quantitative cartography of esports literature	5
Chronology of self-competition in virtual reality exergames: A historical review	5
Typical opinions mining based on Douban film comments in animated movies	5
Influencing factors for building social capital on live streaming websites	5
A modeling environment for reinforcement learning in games	5
Online learning system for English speech automatic recognition based on hidden Markov model algorithm and conditional random field algorithm	5
The relationship between co-playing and socioemotional status among older-adult game players	5
A practical approach based on Bluetooth Low Energy and Neural Networks for indoor localization and targeted devices’ identification by smartphones	5
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	5
StepAR: A personalized exergame for people with multiple sclerosis based on video-mapping	5
Evaluation on game concentration with multi-scale fuzzy entropy based on EEG signals	5