Browsing by Author "Schott, Gareth R."

• Audio visual analysis of player experience: Feedback-based gameplay metrics 

  Marczak, Raphaël; Schott, Gareth R. (ETC Press, 2015)

  This chapter introduces readers to an innovative method designed specifically to meet game researchers’ need to be able to analyse and explore players’ experiences with any off-the-shelf PC game. We introduce how insights ...

  

• A conceptual framework for the analysis of first-person shooter audio and its potential use for game engines 

  Grimshaw, Mark; Schott, Gareth R. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2008)

  We introduce and describe a new conceptual framework for the design and analysis of audio for immersive first-person shooter games, and discuss its potential implications for the development of the audio component of game ...

• The 'dominant effect' of games: Content vs. medium 

  Schott, Gareth R.; Van Vught, Jasper Frans; Marczak, Raphaël (Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2013)

  Digital games receive an age-restriction rating based on the depiction of harmful content and its possible impact on players. Following on from film, the relationship between media content and its psychological impact on ...

  

• Editorial: The experience and benefits of game playing 

  Lorentz, Pascaline; Ferguson, Christopher J.; Schott, Gareth R. (Masaryk University, 2015)

  Now that video games have permeated daily life across the globe on computers, consoles and pocket devices, they call for a more comprehensive—and accurate—understanding of their role in society. Psychological research into ...

  

• Exploring the cause of game (derived) arousal: What biometric accounts of player experience revealed 

  Schott, Gareth R.; Marczak, Raphaël (ETC Press, 2016)

  The function of this paper is to present research findings that ordinarily would never see the light of day, not because they have no value or significance, but they might seem marginal and less significant given the main ...

  

• Social media and body image: It's complicated 

  Elliott, Darren Jack (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  Body image is an important dimension of life, and in a media-saturated world, we are supposedly surrounded by images of 'idealised' physical body types that are harmful to people's body image. Many theories have been put ...

  

• Online Heroines: Exploring the Experiences of Aotearoa New Zealand Women Filmmakers 

  Hutt, Louise (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  The experiences of Aotearoa New Zealand women filmmakers have historically included discrimination, erasure, and exclusion; however, online platforms have been suggested as an antidote to this culture. This research explores ...

  

• The High Art of Trip Hop: Extending the Bristol Sound by Incorporating Compositional Approaches from Classical Music 

  Wragg, Jeffrey Stephen (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  ‘The High Art of Trip Hop’ defines the Bristol sound and extends it through new composition techniques. The two-part thesis combines musicological and practice-led research. Part one analyses the Bristol sound, a style ...

  

• Neoformalist Game Analysis A methodological exploration of single-player game violence 

  Van Vught, Jasper Frans (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis positions itself within the scholarly debate around videogame violence. However, other than focussing on the effects of game violence which dominates much of this debate, this thesis focuses on the formal ...

  

• The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement 

  Snake-Beings, Emit (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Do it Yourself (DiY) is a participatory culture which exemplifies a particular ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go ...

  

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