Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Toups, Zachary"

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"The Collecting Itself Feels Good": Towards Collection Interfaces for Digital Game Objects

Toups, Zachary; Crenshaw, Nicole K.; Wehbe, Rina Renee; Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Nacke, Lennart (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)

Digital games offer a variety of collectible objects. We investigate players' collecting behaviors in digital games to determine what digital game objects players enjoyed collecting and why they valued these objects. Using ...
Investigating the Impact of Cooperative Communication Mechanics on Player Performance in Portal 2

Vaddi, Deepika; Toups, Zachary; Dolgov, Igor; Wehbe, Rina Renee; Nacke, Lennart (Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, 2016-06)

Cooperative communication mechanics, such as avatar gestures or in-game visual pointers, enable player collaboration directly through gameplay. We currently lack a deeper understanding of how players use cooperative ...