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  1. Immersive Invaders: Privacy Threats from Deceptive Design in Virtual Reality Games and Applications

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  2. ExerCube vs. Virtual Reality: A Comparative Study of Exergame Technologies for Older Adults

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  3. The Jade Gateway to Trust: Exploring How Socio-Cultural Perspectives Shape Trust Within Chinese NFT Communities

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yifan Cao, Lennart Nacke

  4. Rolling in Fun, Paying the Price: A Thematic Analysis on Purchase and Play in Tabletop Games

    Article • Games Research and Practice, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  5. Ten Years of CHI PLAY: A Panel on the Past, Present, and Future of the Conference

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Julian Frommel, Vero Vanden Abeele

  6. Computer-based Deceptive Game Design in Commercial Virtual Reality Games: A Preliminary Investigation

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  7. Culture Clash: When Deceptive Design Meets Diverse Player Expectations

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  8. Juicy Audio: Audio Designers' Conceptualization of the Term in Video Games

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Kieran Hicks

  9. From Motivating to Manipulative: The Use of Deceptive Design in a Game's Free-to-Play Transition

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  10. The Jade Gateway to Exergaming: How Socio-Cultural Factors Shape Exergaming Among East Asian Older Adults

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Simin YANG, Ahmad ALHILAL, Lennart Nacke

  11. An Umbrella Review of Reporting Quality in CHI Systematic Reviews: Guiding Questions and Best Practices for HCI

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  12. Disembodied, Asocial, and Unreal: How Users Reinterpret Designed Affordances of Social VR

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  13. Privacy in Immersive Extended Reality: Exploring User Perceptions, Concerns, and Coping Strategies

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  14. An Overview of XR Exergame Research

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Cmentowski

  15. "Never The Same": Systematic Analysis of the Methodological Issues in the Presence Studies That Employ Questionnaires

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  16. How to Write Better CHI Papers (with AI)

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  17. User Experience Research and Design in Video Games

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  18. Deceived by Immersion: A Systematic Analysis of Deceptive Design in Extended Reality

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  19. LEVI: Exploring Possibilities for an Adaptive Board Game System

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  20. Multimedia Showdown: A Comparative Analysis of Audio, Video, and Avatar-Based Communication

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Hancock, Lennart Nacke

  21. The Role of Generative AI in Games Research

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  22. From Points to Progression: A Scoping Review of Game Elements in Gamification Research with a Content Analysis of 280 Research Papers

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Maria Rauschenberger, Lennart Nacke

  23. User Experience Design and Research in Games

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  24. How to Write Better CHI Papers (with LaTeX in Overleaf)

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  25. Never Skip Leg Day Again: Training the Lower Body with Vertical Jumps in a Virtual Reality Exergame

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Cmentowski

  26. Hexad-12: Developing and Validating a Short Version of the Gamification User Types Hexad Scale

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  27. How to do User Experience Research in Games

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  28. LightPlay: Using an External Ambient Lighting Strip for Video Game Indicators

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  29. miniPXI: Development and Validation of an Eleven-Item Measure of the Player Experience Inventory

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Vero Vanden Abeele

  30. Communication Sequences Indicate Team Cohesion: A Mixed-Methods Study of Ad Hoc League of Legends Teams

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Evelyn Tan

  31. “I Don’t Want To Shoot The Android”: Players Translate Real-Life Moral Intuitions to In-Game Decisions in Detroit: Become Human

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  32. Here Comes No Boom! The Lack of Sound Feedback Effects on Performance and User Experience in a Gamified Image Classification Task

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  33. Much Realistic, Such Wow! A Systematic Literature Review of Realism in Digital Games

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  34. How to: Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond)

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Max Wilson, Lennart Nacke

  35. How to Write Better Research Papers (for CHI)

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  36. On Social Contagion in Gamification

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Enrica Loria, Lennart Nacke

  37. Investigating the Effects of Individual Cognitive Styles on Collaborative Gameplay

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  38. Eye-GUAna: Higher Gaze-Based Entropy and Increased Password Space in Graphical User Authentication Through Gamification

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nalin Arachchilage, Lennart Nacke

  39. A Systematic Literature Review of Isolated Players (i.e., Lurkers and Loners) in Games

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Enrica Loria

  40. How to Write CHI Papers, Online Edition

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  41. Better, Funner, Stronger: A Gameful Approach to Nudge People into Making Less Predictable Graphical Password Choices

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Nalin Arachchilage

  42. Feels like Team Spirit: Biometric and Strategic Interdependence in Asymmetric Multiplayer VR Games

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  43. Above Water: Learning to design games for things that are hard to talk about

    Article • August 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  44. How to Write CHI Papers, Fourth Edition

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  45. 'Imi Pono: Creating an Ethical Framework for User Experience Design

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr Jenny Waycott

  46. Gameful app helps people make healthier choices at the grocery store

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Marcela Bomfim

  47. Personal Space in Play: Physical and Digital Boundaries in Large-Display Cooperative and Competitive Games

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, Lennart Nacke

  48. Keep Calm and Ride Along: Passenger Comfort and Anxiety as Physiological Responses to Autonomous Driving Styles

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  49. Development and validation of the player experience inventory: A scale to measure player experiences at the level of functional and psychosocial consequences

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, March 2020, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  50. The Development of "Orbit"

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, Lennart Nacke, Mareike Gabele

  51. "It Started as a Joke"

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Katta Spiel, Lennart Nacke

  52. Cross-Car, Multiplayer Games for Semi-Autonomous Driving

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  53. Player Characteristics and Video Game Preferences

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  54. Empirical validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad scale in English and Spanish

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, July 2019, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  55. Gameful Design Heuristics: A Gamification Inspection Tool

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  56. “I Don’t Fit into a Single Type”: A Trait Model and Scale of Game Playing Preferences

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  57. Exploring the Role of Non-Player Characters and Gender in Player Identification

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Weber, Lennart Nacke

  58. Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  59. Games and Play SIG

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  60. How to Write CHI Papers

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  61. Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  62. Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Exergames: A Systematic Review

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Lennart Nacke

  63. A Framework and Taxonomy of Videogame Playing Preferences

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, RITA ORJI, Lennart Nacke

  64. Gamification through the Application of Motivational Affordances for Physical Activity Technology

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  65. Curiously Motivated

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Simone Kriglstein, Lennart Nacke

  66. Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  67. Positive Gaming

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Kellie Vella, Lennart Nacke

  68. How Multidisciplinary is Gamification Research?

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  69. Leave Them 4 Dead

    Article • June 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, Lennart Nacke

  70. The maturing of gamification research

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, June 2017, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  71. From Joysticks to Pokémon Go

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  72. How to Write and Review CHI Papers

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  73. How small, incremental changes in game design factor impact difficulty

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  74. Towards Personality-driven Persuasive Health Games and Gamified Systems

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  75. ABOVE WATER

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  76. CHI PLAYGUE

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  77. "The Collecting Itself Feels Good"

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  78. ABOVE WATER

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  79. CLEVER

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  80. CLEVER

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  81. Design and Preliminary Validation of The Player Experience Inventory

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Vero Vanden Abeele

  82. Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  83. The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  84. Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  85. SIGCHI Games

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  86. Design Strategies for Gamified Physical Activity Applications for Older Adults

    Article • January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lennart Nacke

  87. Vanishing scares: biofeedback modulation of affective player experiences in a procedural horror game

    Article • Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  88. Editorial for the CHB special issue on MMOGs

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, December 2015, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  89. CHI PLAYGUE

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  90. Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  91. Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  92. Understanding Player Attitudes Towards Digital Game Objects

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  93. Validating Test Chambers to Study Cooperative Communication Mechanics in Portal 2

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas

  94. Modelling human emotion in interactive environments: Physiological ensemble and grounded approaches for synthetic agents

    Article • Web Intelligence, August 2015, IOS Press

    Lennart Nacke

  95. Actionable Inexpensive Games User Research

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  96. All about that Base

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  97. Gamifying Research

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  98. Developing iconic and semi-iconic game controllers

    Article • October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  99. Engaged by boos and cheers

    Article • October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  100. The edge of glory

    Article • October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  101. Understanding expectations with multiple controllers in an augmented reality videogame

    Article • October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  102. Introducing the biometric storyboards tool for games user research

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lennart Nacke

  103. Physiological acrophobia evaluation through in vivo exposure in a VR CAVE

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lennart Nacke

  104. Games and entertainment community SIG

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  105. Player experience

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  106. Unified visualization of quantitative and qualitative playtesting data

    Article • April 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  107. BrainHex: A neurobiological gamer typology survey

    Article • Entertainment Computing, January 2014, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  108. The Effect of Sound on Visual Fidelity Perception in Stereoscopic 3-D

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lennart Nacke

  109. A Hybrid Approach at Emotional State Detection: Merging Theoretical Models of Emotion with Data-Driven Statistical Classifiers

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lennart Nacke

  110. Deconstructing 'gamified' task-management applications

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  111. The kaleidoscope of effective gamification

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  112. Time's up! Gamifying being on time for work

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  113. How does it play better?

    Article • April 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  114. EEG-based assessment of video and in-game learning

    Article • April 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, Professor Bill Kapralos, Lennart Nacke

  115. Contextual influences on mobile player experience – A game user experience model

    Article • Entertainment Computing, February 2013, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  116. Full-body motion-based game interaction for older adults

    Article • May 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  117. Game user research

    Article • May 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  118. "I'm just here to play games"

    Article • February 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  119. Mixed reality games

    Article • February 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke, A/Prof. Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Derek Hansen

  120. Feedback-based gameplay metrics

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  121. Biofeedback game design

    Article • May 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  122. Brain and body interfaces

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  123. BrainHex: Preliminary Results from a Neurobiological Gamer Typology Survey

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  124. Accessible games SIG

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  125. Calibration games

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  126. Developing a triangulation system for digital game events, observational video, and psychophysiological data to study emotional responses to a virtual character

    Article • Entertainment Computing, January 2011, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  127. From game design elements to gamefulness

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  128. Gamification. using game-design elements in non-gaming contexts

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  129. Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  130. LAIF: A logging and interaction framework for gaze-based interfaces in virtual entertainment environments

    Article • Entertainment Computing, January 2011, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  131. The impact of negative game reviews and user comments on player experience

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  132. More than a feeling: Measurement of sonic user experience and psychophysiology in a first-person shooter game

    Article • Interacting with Computers, September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Lennart Nacke

  133. Electroencephalographic Assessment of Player Experience

    Article • Simulation & Gaming, August 2010, SAGE Publications

    Lennart Nacke

  134. 3D attentional maps

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  135. Advanced gaze visualizations for three-dimensional virtual environments

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  136. Brain, body and bytes

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  137. Correlation between heart rate, electrodermal activity and player experience in first-person shooter games

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  138. The neurobiology of play

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  139. Wiimote vs. controller

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  140. Brain Training for Silver Gamers: Effects of Age and Game Form on Effectiveness, Efficiency, Self-Assessment, and Gameplay Experience

    Article • CyberPsychology & Behavior, October 2009, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Lennart Nacke

  141. From playability to a hierarchical game usability model

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  142. Flow and immersion in first-person shooters

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lennart Nacke

  143. Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound

    Article • IGI Global

    Lennart Nacke