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Designing health: the evolution of medical narratives in video games 健康设计：电子游戏中医学叙事的演变

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100969

Alejandro Díez-Vidal , Pablo González-Egido , Fernando Domínguez-Estévez , Miguel Cordero-Álvarez , José Luis Barroso-Cerro , Jesús Criado-Encinas , Sergio Carrasco-Molina , Carlos Arroyo-Acosta

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Emergence of Player Tactics by expert-guided Machine Learning: An industry tower defence case study 由专家引导的机器学习产生的玩家战术：一个工业塔防案例研究

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100963

Stuart Anderson, Ruth Falconer

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The role of perceived consumer value dimensions in predicting behavioral intention toward car-sharing: An empirical study based on the extended technology acceptance model 消费者价值感知维度对汽车共享行为意愿的预测作用：基于扩展技术接受模型的实证研究

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100967

Gökhan Akel , Talha Bayır

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Unpacking the Player: A review of consumption behaviours beyond gameplay in esports 剖析玩家：电子竞技游戏玩法之外的消费行为

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100966

Nashniq Shah Majiri, Mohd Kamal Othman, Norehan Zulkiply

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Optimizing experiential learning in science education: The role of two-tier testing in digital game-based learning 优化科学教育中的体验式学习：双层测试在数字游戏学习中的作用

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100960

Minkai Wang , Jingdong Zhu , Hanjie Gu , Jie Zhang , Dan Wu , Peijuan Wang

{"title":"Optimizing experiential learning in science education: The role of two-tier testing in digital game-based learning","authors":"Minkai Wang , Jingdong Zhu , Hanjie Gu , Jie Zhang , Dan Wu , Peijuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100960","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100960","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Science education aims to cultivate students’ scientific literacy, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking skills through engaging and effective instructional approaches. However, traditional teaching methods often struggle to foster deep conceptual understanding and sustained interest in scientific learning. To address these challenges, digital game-based learning (DGBL) has emerged as a promising approach, providing an enjoyable, interactive, and immersive environment that enables students to experience and apply scientific knowledge in authentic contexts. Building upon this foundation, this study explores the effectiveness of two-tier test-based digital game-based learning (TT-DGBL), which integrates diagnostic assessments within a game environment to identify and correct students’ misconceptions through adaptive feedback. A quasi-experimental design was employed to compare the impact of TT-DGBL and conventional DGBL on academic performance and flow experience among sixth-grade students. Additionally, lag sequential analysis was conducted to examine students’ behavioral patterns in the game-based learning process. The findings indicate that TT-DGBL significantly enhances students’ academic performance and flow experience, while also promoting positive and sustained learning behaviors more effectively than conventional DGBL. These results suggest that incorporating two-tier testing into DGBL can serve as an effective strategy for fostering deeper engagement and conceptual understanding in science education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55997,"journal":{"name":"Entertainment Computing","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100960"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143928930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Game transfer phenomena as a particular form of involuntary cognitions: The role of internet gaming disorder, and other psychopathological and cognitive predictors 作为一种特殊形式的非自愿认知的游戏迁移现象：网络游戏障碍的作用，以及其他精神病理和认知预测因素

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100964

Julio C. Llamas-Alonso , Lia Kvavilashvili , George Georgiou , Angelica B. Ortiz de Gortari

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Immediate or delayed? The impact of temporal discounting on the choice of payment schemes in mobile games 立即还是延迟？时间折扣对手机游戏中付费方案选择的影响

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100965

Chang Ma, Jingbo Shao

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Purr-ogrammed love: A narrative review of virtual pets 呼噜声编程的爱：虚拟宠物的叙事回顾

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100958

Michaela Dodd , Allan Fowler , Danielle Lottridge

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Gamified digital therapy for reducing perioperative anxiety in children: Exploring multi-sensory interactive experience 游戏化数字治疗减少儿童围手术期焦虑：探索多感官互动体验

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100962

Su Wang , Yuelin Liu , Xiaoxue Mei , Jiangnan Li

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Notion meta-learner: A technique for few-shot learning in music genre recognition 概念元学习者：一种用于音乐体裁识别的小片段学习技术

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Entertainment Computing Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100961

Jinhong Shi , Francisco Hernando-Gallego , Diego Martín , Mohammad Khishe

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