Toward Understanding the Impact of Visual Themes and Embellishment on Performance, Engagement, and Self-Efficacy in Educational Games
The results of over twenty-five years of research seem clear: the addition of seductive visual details in video games hinders performance of learners (Garner, Gillingham, & White, 1989; Thalheimer, 2004; Rey, 2012). Yet, countless other research results propose the opposite: that visual embell...
Main Authors: | Kao, Dominic, Harrell Jr, Douglas Alan |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Educational Research Association
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116242 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7732-6258 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-2201 |
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