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  1. User Experience Design and Research in Games

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. How to do User Experience Research in Games

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

    Lennart Nacke

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. “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

  10. 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

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Max Wilson, Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  14. 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

  15. 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, Z Toups

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. How to Write CHI Papers, Online Edition

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

    Lennart Nacke

  19. 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

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  21. 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

  22. How to Write CHI Papers, Fourth Edition

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke, Marcela Bomfim

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Gameful Design Heuristics: A Gamification Inspection Tool

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  30. “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

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  32. Games and Play SIG

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

    Lennart Nacke

  33. 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

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  35. Leave Them 4 Dead

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

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, Lennart Nacke

  36. The maturing of gamification research

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, June 2017, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  37. From Joysticks to Pokémon Go

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

    Lennart Nacke

  38. How to Write and Review CHI Papers

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  41. ABOVE WATER

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  42. CHI PLAYGUE

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  43. "The Collecting Itself Feels Good"

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  44. ABOVE WATER

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  45. CLEVER

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

    Lennart Nacke

  46. CLEVER

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

    Lennart Nacke

  47. Design and Preliminary Validation of The Player Experience Inventory

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

    Lennart Nacke

  48. Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design

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

    Lennart Nacke

  49. The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  51. SIGCHI Games

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  53. 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

  54. Editorial for the CHB special issue on MMOGs

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, December 2015, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  55. CHI PLAYGUE

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  56. Personalization in Serious and Persuasive Games and Gamified Interactions

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

    Lennart Nacke

  57. Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  58. Understanding Player Attitudes Towards Digital Game Objects

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  59. 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

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

    Article • Web Intelligence, August 2015, IOS Press

    Lennart Nacke

  61. Actionable Inexpensive Games User Research

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

    Lennart Nacke

  62. All about that Base

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

    Lennart Nacke

  63. Gamifying Research

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

    Lennart Nacke

  64. Developing iconic and semi-iconic game controllers

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

    Lennart Nacke

  65. Engaged by boos and cheers

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

    Lennart Nacke

  66. The edge of glory

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  68. Introducing the biometric storyboards tool for games user research

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  70. Games and entertainment community SIG

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

    Lennart Nacke

  71. Player experience

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

    Lennart Nacke

  72. Unified visualization of quantitative and qualitative playtesting data

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

    Lennart Nacke

  73. BrainHex: A neurobiological gamer typology survey

    Article • Entertainment Computing, January 2014, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. Deconstructing 'gamified' task-management applications

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

    Lennart Nacke

  77. The kaleidoscope of effective gamification

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke, Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe

  79. How does it play better?

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

    Lennart Nacke

  80. 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

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

    Article • Entertainment Computing, February 2013, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  83. Game user research

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

    Lennart Nacke

  84. Mixed reality games

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  86. Feedback-based gameplay metrics

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

    Lennart Nacke

  87. Biofeedback game design

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

    Lennart Nacke

  88. Brain and body interfaces

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

  90. Accessible games SIG

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

    Lennart Nacke

  91. Calibration games

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

    Lennart Nacke

  92. 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

  93. From game design elements to gamefulness

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lennart Nacke

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

    Article • Entertainment Computing, January 2011, Elsevier

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  98. 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

  99. Electroencephalographic Assessment of Player Experience

    Article • Simulation & Gaming, August 2010, SAGE Publications

    Lennart Nacke

  100. 3D attentional maps

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

    Lennart Nacke

  101. Advanced gaze visualizations for three-dimensional virtual environments

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

    Lennart Nacke

  102. Brain, body and bytes

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

    Lennart Nacke

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

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

    Lennart Nacke

  104. The neurobiology of play

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

    Lennart Nacke

  105. Wiimote vs. controller

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

    Lennart Nacke

  106. 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

  107. From playability to a hierarchical game usability model

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

    Lennart Nacke

  108. Flow and immersion in first-person shooters

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

    Lennart Nacke

  109. Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound

    Article • IGI Global

    Lennart Nacke