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E3: Emotions, Engagement, And Educational Digital Games, Ani Aghababyan
E3: Emotions, Engagement, And Educational Digital Games, Ani Aghababyan
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The use of educational digital games as a method of instruction for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics has increased in the past decade. While these games provide successfully implemented interactive and fun interfaces, they are not designed to respond or remedy students’ negative affect towards the game dynamics or their educational content. Therefore, this exploratory study investigated the frequent patterns of student emotional and behavioral response to educational digital games.
To unveil the sequential occurrence of these affective states, students were assigned to play the game for nine class sessions. During these sessions, their affective and behavioral response was recorded …