BMF CP63: Gaming experience, isolation, social distancing, and disconnection from the outside world
AISDL Team
Jan. 30, 2024
“[…] To alleviate the boredom, after catching a fish, Kingfisher would press all three buttons before swallowing the fish. Pressing the buttons has gradually become somewhat of a new technological ritual.”
—In “Innovation”; The Kingfisher Story Collection [1].
1. Project description
1.1. Main objectives
The current study is conducted to examine the following research questions:
- How are Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) game players’ time of isolation/social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic associated with their disconnection from the outside world?
- How are Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) game players’ frequency of playing games during the COVID-19 pandemic associated with their disconnection from the outside world?
- Do game players’ feelings about the games (i.e., rich experience, aesthetics, imaginativeness of the game) moderate the association between the frequency of playing games and their disconnection from the outside world?
Findings from this study are expected to contribute to understanding the association between game players’ perceptual factors and game-playing experiences [2].
1.2. Materials
The mindsponge theory will be used for conceptual development, and Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics will be used for statistical analysis on a dataset of 640 ACNH game players from 29 countries around the globe [3-6]. The bayesvl R package, aided by the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, will be employed for statistical analyses [7]. For more information on BMF analytics, portal users can refer to the following book [8]. Data and code snippets of this initial analysis were deposited at https://zenodo.org/records/10589212.
1.3. Main findings
The preliminary analysis shows that the feeling of the game’s rich experience is associated with game players’ disconnection from the outside world, but the association is conditional on the frequency of playing ACNH (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Estimated disconnection level based on the rich experience level and ACNH-playing frequency
2. Collaboration procedure
Portal users should follow these steps for registering to participate in this research project:
- Create an account on the website (preferably using an institution email).
- Comment on your name, affiliation, and desired role in the project below this post.
- Patiently wait for the formal agreement on the project from the AISDL mentor.
If you have further inquiries, please contact us at aisdl_team@mindsponge.info
If you have been invited to join the project by an AISDL member, you are still encouraged to follow the above formal steps.
All the resources for conducting and writing the research manuscript will be distributed upon project participation.
AISDL mentor for this project: Minh-Hoang Nguyen
AISDL members who have joined this project are Quan-Hoang Vuong and Viet-Phuong La.
The research project strictly adheres to scientific integrity standards, including authorship rights and obligations [9], without incurring an economic burden at participants’ expenses [10].
References
[1] Vuong QH. (2022). The Kingfisher Story Collection. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BG2NNHY6
[2] Vuong QH. (2021). The semiconducting principle of monetary and environmental values exchange. Economics and Business Letters, 10(3), 284-290. https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/EBL/article/view/15872
[3] Nguyen MH, Jones TE. (2022). Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, 426. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01441-9
[4] Nguyen MH, et al. (2022). Introduction to Bayesian Mindsponge Framework analytics: An innovative method for social and psychological research. MethodsX, 9, 101808. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2215016122001881
[5] Vuong QH. (2023). Mindsponge Theory. De Gruyter. https://www.amazon.com/dp/8367405145/
[6] Vuong QH, et al. (2021). Identifying the moral–practical gaps in corporate social responsibility missions of Vietnamese firms: An event?based analysis of sustainability feasibility. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(1), 30-41. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csr.2029
[7] Nguyen MH. (2021). Multifaceted interactions between urban humans and biodiversity-related concepts: A developing-country data set. Data Intelligence, 3(4), 578-605.
[8] La VP, Vuong QH. (2019). bayesvl: Visually Learning the Graphical Structure of Bayesian Networks and Performing MCMC with ‘Stan’. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bayesvl/index.html
[9] Vuong QH, Nguyen MH, La VP. (2022). The mindsponge and BMF analytics for innovative thinking in social sciences and humanities. De Gruyter. https://www.amazon.com/dp/8367405102/
[10] Vuong QH. (2020). The limitations of retraction notices and the heroic acts of authors who correct the scholarly record: An analysis of retractions of papers published from 1975 to 2019. Learned Publishing, 33(2), 119-130. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1282
[11] Vuong QH. (2018). The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0281-4