Give me a reason to dig Minecraft and psychology of motivation

Alessandro Canossa; Josep B. Martinez; Julian Togelius

doi:10.1109/CIG.2013.6633612

Give me a reason to dig Minecraft and psychology of motivation

Alessandro Canossa, Josep B. Martinez, Julian Togelius

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Abstract

Recently both game industry professionals and academic researchers have started focusing on player-generated behavioral data as a mean to gather insights on player psychology through datamining. Although some research has already proven solid correlations between in-game behavior and personality, most techniques focus on extracting knowledge from in-game behavior data alone. This paper posits that triangulating exclusively behavioral datasets with established theoretical frameworks serving as hermeneutic grids, may help extracting additional meaning and information. The hermeneutic grid selected for this study is the Reiss Motivation Profiler and it is applied to behavioral data gathered from Minecraft players.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, CIG 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2013.6633612
State	Published - 2013
Event	2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, CIG 2013 - Niagara Falls, ON, Canada Duration: Aug 11 2013 → Aug 13 2013

Publication series

Name	IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG
ISSN (Print)	2325-4270
ISSN (Electronic)	2325-4289

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Other	2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, CIG 2013
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Niagara Falls, ON
Period	8/11/13 → 8/13/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Canossa, A, Martinez, JB & Togelius, J 2013, Give me a reason to dig Minecraft and psychology of motivation. in 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, CIG 2013., 6633612, IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG, 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, CIG 2013, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 8/11/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2013.6633612

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