Effects of Game Mode in Multiplayer Video Games on Intergenerational Social Interaction: Randomized Field Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maintaining social relationships is a basic human need and particularly essential in old age, including when living in a retirement home. Multiplayer video games can promote positive social interactions among players from different generations while playing. Yet, such facilitation of positive social interactions depends on specific game design. To systematically investigate the effects of game design on social interaction between seniors and their coplayers, the game Myosotis FoodPlanet was developed in this study, and the impacts of 3 different game modes on social interaction were compared in a controlled field trial.

Objective

This study aims to compare the effects of 3 different game modes (competitive, cooperative, and creative) on social interactions (verbal

SUBMITTER: Zahn C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892273 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature