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  1. How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance

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

    Nick Ballou, Heiko Breitsohl

  2. A Manifesto for More Productive Psychological Games Research

    Article • Games Research and Practice, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nick Ballou

  3. Do People Use Games to Compensate for Psychological Needs During Crises? A Mixed-Methods Study of Gaming During COVID-19 Lockdowns

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

    Nick Ballou

  4. Self-Determination Theory in HCI: Shaping a Research Agenda

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

    Nick Ballou

  5. Actions, not gestures: contextualising embodied controller interactions in immersive virtual reality

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

    Nick Ballou

  6. Not Very Effective: Validity Issues of the Effectance in Games Scale

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

    Nick Ballou, Heiko Breitsohl

  7. Do Academic Journals Have Clear Transparency and Openness Policies? Very Rarely, Unfortunately

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

    Nick Ballou