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Assessing the comprehensiveness of the Co-operative Performance Metric: A mixed-method analysis using Portal 2
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2022-06-16
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Gorman, Gregory
Linehan, Conor
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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The Co-operative Performance Metric (CPM) is the only existing tool for evaluating co-located game play experiences but has not yet been extensively studied. To observe how effectively the CPM captured co-located and co-operative player behaviour, this study investigates the comprehensiveness of the CPM by comparing a CPM analysis of co-located gameplay with a much more time-consuming video ethnographic analysis. Five pairs of participants played the puzzle game Portal 2 for one hour, while their interactions were video recorded and analysed. Results indicate that the CPM successfully captures many co-operative behaviours relating to player experience, with some exceptions. The most important missing components were the social effects; 1) prior experience playing the game, and 2) whether players were friends. Thus, with some small modifications, the CPM can function as a quick but comprehensive assessment of co-operative player behaviour, social effects, and game genre.
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Co-located gameplay , Co-operative gameplay , Dynamics and aesthetics , Evaluating co-operative game design , Mechanics , Video ethnography
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Gorman, G. and Linehan, C. (2022) 'Assessing the comprehensiveness of the Co-operative Performance Metric: A mixed-method analysis using Portal 2', in Fang, X. (ed.) HCI in Games. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13334, pp. 22-39. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_2
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© 2022, the Authors, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_2