Sebastian Deterding

schoolUniversity of Yorkbar_chart#1131 Global Rank

Total Papers

HCI Rank

#1131

Research Areas

Years Active

Recent Publications

What's the Point? How Users Functionalise Points in Gamified Systems

Points are widely used design elements in gamified systems. Yet how they motivate is still unclear: what motivational meaning or functional significance do users ascribe to points and when? To answer this question, we conducted a semi-structured interview study with 27 users of two popular gamified platforms, Duolingo…

DIS '25CorrespondingBest PaperSustainable HCI +1

Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe

Houseplants are increasingly being used as part of interactive systems that aim to foster pro-environmental concern and awareness of more-than-human life. Yet such interventions rely on conflicting and untested assumptions about how people relate to houseplants. We therefore studied domestic plant care in 11 purposefu…

CHI '24CorrespondingGame UX & Player Behavior +1

How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance

'Juicy' or immediate abundant action feedback is widely held to make video games enjoyable and intrinsically motivating. Yet we do not know why it works: Which motives are mediating it? Which features afford it? In a pre-registered (n=1,699) online experiment, we tested three motives mapping prior practitioner discour…

CHI '222nd AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Do People Use Games to Compensate for Psychological Needs During Crises? A Mixed-Methods Study of Gaming During COVID-19 Lockdowns

Do people use games to cope with adverse life events and crises? Research informed by self-determination theory proposes that people might compensate for thwarted basic psychological needs in daily life by seeking out games that satisfy those lacking needs. To test this, we conducted a preregistered mixed-method surve…

CHI '222nd AuthorHonorable MentionGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Prevalence and Salience of Problematic Microtransactions in Top-Grossing Mobile and PC Games: A Content Analysis of User Reviews

Microtransactions have become a major monetisation model in digital games, shaping their design, impacting their player experience, and raising ethical concerns. Research in this area has chiefly focused on loot boxes. This begs the question whether other microtransactions might actually be more relevant and problemat…

CHI '22CorrespondingGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Trading Accuracy for Enjoyment? Data Quality and Player Experience in Data Collection Games

Games have become a popular way of collecting human subject data, based on the premise that they are more engaging than surveys or experiments, but generate equally valid data. However, this premise has not been empirically tested. In response, we designed a game for eliciting linguistic data following Intrinsic Elici…

CHI '21CorrespondingAlgorithmic Transparency & Auditability +1

Are You Open? A Content Analysis of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in HCI Journals

Within the wider open science reform movement, HCI researchers are actively debating how to foster transparency in their own field. Publication venues play a crucial role in instituting open science practices, especially journals, whose procedures arguably lend themselves better to them than conferences. Yet we know l…

CHI '19CorrespondingHonorable MentionGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Influencers in Multiplayer Online Shooters: Evidence of Social Contagion in Playtime and Social Play

In a wide range of social networks, people's behavior is influenced by social contagion: we do what our network does. Networks often feature particularly influential individuals, commonly called "influencers." Existing work suggests that in-game social networks in online games are similar to real-life social networks…

Quick Actions

Share this page

ios_share

X in mail

https://hci.top/en/authors/19758?source=all