Search results for "digitaaliset pelit"

Exergaming Experiences of Older Adults: A Critical Incident Study

2019

Exergaming is a form of digital gaming requiring physical effort from the player. There has been a growing interest towards exergaming in academia. However, only a very limited number of exergaming studies have given a voice to older adults and investigated their experiences. This study investigates what kinds of exergaming experiences are perceived as the most meaningful ones among older adults (referred in this study as people over 50 years of age). That is, the experiences which they perceive or remember as “unusually positive or negative”. To meet this purpose, this study takes a qualitative approach and uses the critical incident technique, a well-established technique to collect and c…

Sukupolvet videopelien turnajaisissa : e-urheilun markkinoiden ikärakenne

2020

Digital gaming attracts people of all ages. Nevertheless, professional esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is dominated by under 35 year olds. In this paper, e-sports market is analysed by focusing on the performance of different age-groups. Younger generations play more digital games and dominate e-sports scene, but also older people enjoy playing various video games. Two separate datasets are analysed for testing whether age is a statistically significant explanatory variable for success in professional e-sports tournaments. According to the empirical results, success in e-sports tournaments decreases with the player’s age. The best results are gained when the …

Informal learning and wellbeing outcomes of gameplay and their associations with gameplay motivation

2023

Educational functions of digital games are often seen only in the light of the serious and purposeful activities that aim for learning outcomes, in contrast with noneducational games that are designed for entertainment. The focus of this paper is in studying players’ learning outcomes from playing non-educational games, and how these relate to wellbeing outcomes of playing, and gaming motivation. The data for this study was collected via a survey (N = 1,202) in the United Kingdom and the United States. The survey respondents answered the question regarding what players perceive they have learnt by playing digital games. A generic datadriven qualitative content analysis of the responses to t…

Player perceptions of informal learning in non-educational games

2022

The potential of non-educational games in learning is well-established, but there have been relatively few empirical studies attempting to explore the kinds of informal learning take place in non-educational games outside of formal education. Simultaneously, student motivation is known to have a connection to learning outcomes, but there is a lack of research on the relationship between gaming motivations and informal learning in games. This paper aims to fill the gap in research by, firstly, forming an empirically-based understanding of what players perceive they are learning from playing non-educational games, and secondly, exploring the potential connections of self-articulated learning …

Kohut ja moraalipaniikit pelimedian kulttuurisina siirtymäriitteinä

2018

Beyond the pale : gaming controversies and moral panics as rites of passage

2017

Throughout the history of Western popular culture, new emerging forms of media have been perceived as threats to social norms, societal order and moral foundations. The present compilation dissertation situates the medium of digital games into this centuries-old continuum. This study contents that controversies and moral panics that originate from the aforementioned concerns should be perceived as cultural rites of passage for new media, which indicate their transition from one state into another, from periphery into mainstream. This study demonstrates that gaming controversies and moral panics are rarely situational or random events. Rather, they are manufactured through social interaction…

Digitaalisen pelaamisen käytäntöjä esiopetuksessa : kasvattajat ja tabletit valmiina, peli alkaa!

2018

Digitaaliset pelit tekevät tuloaan suomalaiseen esiopetukseen. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, kuinka paljon, millaisia ja missä tilanteissa digitaalisia pelejä esiopetuksessa pelataan sekä kuinka kasvattajiin ja toisaalta heidän työympäristönsä voimavaroihin liittyvät tekijät ovat yhteydessä pelaamisen useuteen esiopetuksessa. Tutkimuksen aineisto kerättiin verkkokyselyllä ja aineistonkeruussa hyödynnettiin ammattijärjestöjä ja sosiaalista mediaa. Tutkimukseen osallistui yhteensä 94 esiopetuksessa työskentelevää kasvattajaa. Aineiston analyysi toteutettiin määrällisesti ja keskeisimpänä menetelmänä oli lineaarinen regressioanalyysi. Eri esiopetusryhmien välillä oli suuria ero…

Investigating the effectiveness of a digital game-based task on the acquisition of word knowledge

2020

This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a DGBVL task for acquiring ten low-frequent inanimate object names, or lexical nouns, by playing a commercial adventure game. The control group participants practiced the same words in a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary acquisition exercise. In brief, first, all participants sat for a word-checklist and a proficiency test; next, they completed their tasks,…

Digital Games as a Source of English Vocabulary for Finnish Writers

2021

The material for this paper comes from Finnish people who wrote about their experiences of the music of digital games. We collected 184 texts, all but one written in Finnish. There is relatively little code-switching into English at the clause level, but the vocabulary of the texts is influenced by English on a continuum from clearly English words such as comfy to established loanwords such as uniikki (‘unique’). We will consider how the influence of the English language used both in the games and in discussions about them characterizes the vocabulary of these texts and how the English language enables the authors to enter the game world. peerReviewed

"Mä koitan olla kutsumatta niit infectedeiks koska anglismi" : code-switching in Finnish online gaming videos

2014

Videopalvelu YouTubessa julkaistavista Let's Play-pelivideoista on tullut muutaman viime vuoden aikana todella suosittuja niin Suomessa kuin muuallakin maailmassa. Pelivideot yhdistävät YouTuben yhteisöllisyyden ja yksilön mahdollisuuden luoda sisältöä videopelien interaktiivisuuteen ja elokuvallisuuteen. Tutkielmani keskittyy suomalaisen nuoren miehen tekemiin pelivideoihin, joissa pelataan vuonna 2013 julkaistua toimintaroolipeliä the Last of Us ja samalla kommentoidaan videopelin tapahtumia. Videopelin toimintakieli on englanti: mm. pelin valikot, dialogi ja ohjeet ovat englanninkielisiä. Videoissa pelaaja kommentoi pelin tapahtumia suomeksi, mutta käyttää puheessaan myös runsaasti engla…