Research Question
1. How do players communicate and interact with each other in games through different platforms?
2. How it affects players’ feelings of social presence?
These two key points affect all the game’s settings and the following research. A variety of different interaction and communication methods are applied in this work, and user tests are performed to collect players’ opinions on the gaming experience and the impact of interaction and communication settings on social presence.
The purpose of this user test is to observe the players’ in-game communication and interaction behaviours in different platforms and to further find its possibilities to affect players’ sense of social presence. I tested with 4 groups in total, with 2 people in each group. In addition, because of the time and distance limitation, two groups were tested remotely, while the other two groups of the testers performed the test co-located.
