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The Placebo Effect in Digital Games

Alena Denisova Orcid Logo, Paul Cairns

Pages: 23 - 33

Swansea University Author: Alena Denisova Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1145/2793107.2793109

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Play-testing of digital games is a crucial part of any game development process, used to gather feedback about the game and correct any existing and potential flaws with the design. However, due to the nature of human subject testing, the feedback being collected in such experiments is prone to bias...

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ISBN: 978-1-4503-3466-2 978-1-4503-3466-2
Published: London, United Kingdom Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI Play) 2015
Online Access: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2793109
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