Developing and Analyzing Immersive Game Technologies and Components for Motivation, Wellbeing, and Guidance

游戏技术作为可穿戴计算设备、移动健康跟踪器以及行为改变和社交网络应用程序的重要补充，已经在我们的生活中变得无处不在。众所周知，数字游戏一次能吸引我们几个小时的注意力，并鼓励重复和持续使用技术，使它们成为激励行为改变的理想载体，帮助我们改善健康、社交生活和学习。流行的新兴游戏技术包括使用可穿戴设备和手机的位置跟踪游戏，以及使用虚拟现实(VR)耳机和环绕立体声耳机的完全沉浸式技术。然而，这些技术并不局限于数字游戏。为了最大限度地发挥这些新兴游戏技术的优势，我们需要研究它们如何改善人类福祉，以及我们如何利用它们来激励和培训人们。我们需要了解这些技术的好处和局限性，以便能够有效地开发它们，并以尽可能好的方式使用它们。游戏(或游戏性)设计并不局限于实际的游戏。游戏设计元素注入了我们每天在多种环境中使用的软件和应用程序，例如提高我们的财务意识或我们的健康。这种现象称为“游戏化”，它将游戏组件(或游戏机制)集成到现有的技术、系统和过程中。除了了解游戏技术外，我们还需要更好地了解游戏化中使用的游戏组件，如状态指示器、奖励、社交压力、进度、集合和任务。应该研究与这些游戏化组件相关的用户体验(UX)，以便我们能够更好地理解游戏组件与学习、行为变化和增加人类幸福感之间的相互关系。我建议研究开发技术和算法，以建立沉浸式游戏系统，能够激励我们，改善我们的幸福感，并指导我们做出决定。作为这项研究的一部分，我们计划研究游戏如何帮助我们改善精神、身体或情感上的健康。我们将调查是什么驱使和激励人们使用卫生技术。我们还将研究如何使用游戏设计组件来指导我们构建更好的学习应用程序(以及哪些组件对于专业领域的培训和学习最有效，例如语言习得、经济学或手术室协议培训)。我们还打算研究游戏氛围作为激励游戏的一个主要因素。例如，我们将询问游戏音频提示作为游戏设计组件的影响，以使新技术更具沉浸感和吸引力。最后，我们将研究游戏组件的个性化和定制化如何导致更具激励性的游戏技术，这些技术可以单独适应玩家的偏好。

Game technologies have become ubiquitous in our lives as a crucial supplement to wearable computing devices, mobile health trackers, and behaviour-change and social networking applications. Digital games are known for capturing our attention for hours at a time, and for encouraging repeated and continued technology use, making them an ideal vector for motivating behaviour change, helping us to improve our health, social life, and learning. Popular emerging game technologies range from location-tracking games using wearable devices and mobile phones to completely immersive technologies using virtual reality (VR) headsets and surround-sound headphones. However, these technologies are not limited to digital games only. To maximize the advantage of these new and emerging game technologies, we need to investigate how they can improve human well-being and how we can leverage them to motivate and train people. We need to understand the benefits and limitations of these technologies to be able to develop them effectively and use them in the best possible ways.Game (or gameful) design is not restricted to actual games. Gameful design elements infuse software and applications that we use in multiple contexts every day, such as to improve our financial awareness or our health. This phenomenon, known as 'gamification', integrates game components (or game mechanics) into existing technologies, systems, and processes. In addition to understanding game technologies, we need to develop a better understanding of game components used in gamification, such as status indicators, rewards, social pressures, progression, collection, and quests. The 'user experience' (UX) related to these gamified components should be studied, so that we can better understand the interrelationships between game components and learning, behaviour change, and increased human wellbeing.I propose to research development techniques and algorithms to build immersive game systems that can motivate us, improve our wellbeing, and guide us in making decisions. As part of this, we plan to research how games can help us improve mental, physical, or emotional wellbeing. We will investigate what compels and motivates people to use health technology. We will also study how we can build better learning applications using gameful design components to guide us (and what components are most effective for training and learning in specialized fields such as language acquisition, economics, or training in operating room protocols). We also intend to examine game atmosphere as a major factor in motivating play. For example, we'll interrogate the impact of game audio cues as game design components to make novel technologies more immersive and engaging. Finally, we will study how personalization and customization of game components can lead to more motivating game technologies which are individually adapted to players' preferences.