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Why do people play games? A review of studies on adoption and use

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Abstract

This paper reviews empirical literature on adoption/acceptance, continued use as well loyalty in the context of games. The study reviews dependent variables, independent variables, coefficients between independent and dependent variables, used methodologies as well as types of games covered in the reviewed literature.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
PublisherIEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS
Pages3559-3568
Number of pages10
Volume2015-March
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4799-7367-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
Event48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015 -
Duration: 1 Jan 2015 → …

Conference

Conference48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
Period1/01/15 → …

Keywords

  • Adoption
  • Loyalty
  • Meta-analysis
  • Mobile game
  • Online game
  • Sng
  • Social game
  • Technology acceptance
  • Use continuance
  • Video game

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 1

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