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Induction and Transferral of Flow in the Game Tetris
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O'Neill, Kevin John
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1607267523632825
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Year and Degree
2020, Master of Science (MS), Wright State University, Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology MS.
Abstract
We looked at the facilitation and transfer of a flow state in a cognitive context. Subjects played a manipulated version of the game Tetris, and we gathered data on their gameplay performance on pre- and post-tasks, as well as a set of questionnaires which measure flow and perceived task effort. The altered version of Tetris includes an artificial intelligence agent that continually assesses the participant’s skill and adapts the challenge level of the game to match the participant’s skill. An adaptive condition characterized by challenge-skill balance was hypothesized to induce flow, reduce perception of effort, and improve performance. We found differences in reported flow state between conditions, with the easy condition inducing greater flow than adaptive condition, which induced greater flow than the hard condition. We did not find significant differences for performance measures.
Committee
Ion Juvina, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Joseph Houpt, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pamela Tsang, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
68 p.
Subject Headings
Cognitive Psychology
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Psychology
Keywords
psychology
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experimental psychology
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cognitive psychology
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flow state
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attention
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tetris
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flow transfer
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game
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video game
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adaptive training
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human factors
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human factors psychology
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O'Neill, K. J. (2020).
Induction and Transferral of Flow in the Game Tetris
[Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1607267523632825
APA Style (7th edition)
O'Neill, Kevin.
Induction and Transferral of Flow in the Game Tetris.
2020. Wright State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1607267523632825.
MLA Style (8th edition)
O'Neill, Kevin. "Induction and Transferral of Flow in the Game Tetris." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1607267523632825
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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