Exploring Curiosity in Games: A Framework and Questionnaire Study of Player Perspectives.

Ben Kirman Ben J. Kirman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4087-5798 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130859475

Ziao Tang Ben Kirman Exploring Curiosity in Games: A Framework and Questionnaire Study of Player Perspectives. 2475-2490 2025 February 41 Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact. 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2325171 db/journals/ijhci/ijhci41.html#TangK25 streams/journals/ijhci

Ziao Tang Ben Kirman Designing for curiosity: Understanding player engagement with treasure chest mechanics in open-world games. 103575 2025 203 Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103575 db/journals/ijmms/ijmms203.html#TangK25 streams/journals/ijmms

Daniel Lock Ben Kirman Identifying the Developmental Challenges of Creating Virtual Reality Theatre: This paper reports on the identified challenges of creating virtual reality theatre from the practitioner's perspective. 222-225 2023 IMX https://doi.org/10.1145/3573381.3603359 conf/tvx/2023 db/conf/tvx/imx2023.html#LockK23 Charline Foch Ben Kirman "The game doesn't judge you": game designers' perspectives on implementing failure in video games. 14:1-14:13 2022 FDG https://doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555868 conf/fdg/2022 db/conf/fdg/fdg2022.html#FochK22 Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Tom Feltwell Inscrutable Games: How Players Respond to Illegible or Opaque Game Design. 31-40 2022 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/3569219.3569392 conf/mindtrek/2022 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2022.html#KirmanLF22 Robb Mitchell Ben Kirman Enrique "Kin" Encinas I Just Can't Believe These are not Fictitious: Vivifying design examples through narratives populated by existing artefacts. 129-134 2022 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/3569219.3569394 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130859477 conf/mindtrek/2022 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2022.html#MitchellKE22

Oliver Bates Carolynne Lord Hayley Alter Adrian Friday Ben Kirman Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. 26-34 2021 20 IEEE Pervasive Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113310812 db/journals/pervasive/pervasive20.html#BatesLAFK21

Marko Tot Michelangelo Conserva Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis Sagarika Patra Simon Demediuk Alvaro Caceres Munoz Oluseyi Olarewaju Marian Ursu Ben Kirman Jonathan Hook Florian Block Anders Drachen Diego Pérez-Liébana What Are You Looking At? Team Fight Prediction Through Player Camera. 1-8 2021 CoG https://doi.org/10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619038 conf/cig/2021 db/conf/cig/cog2021.html#TotCCKPDMOUKHBD21 Charline Foch Ben Kirman "Slow down and look": Desirable aspects of failure in video games, from the perspective of players. 27:1-27:10 2021 FDG https://doi.org/10.1145/3472538.3472569 conf/fdg/2021 db/conf/fdg/fdg2021.html#FochK21 Justus Robertson Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis Jonathan Hook Ben Kirman Florian Block Marian Florin Ursu Sagarika Patra Simon Demediuk Anders Drachen Oluseyi Olarewaju Wait, But Why?: Assessing Behavior Explanation Strategies for Real-Time Strategy Games. 32-42 2021 IUI https://doi.org/10.1145/3397481.3450699 conf/iui/2021 db/conf/iui/iui2021.html#RobertsonKHKBUP21 Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan What's Your Problem with the Dog Internet? 1-14 2020 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381811 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130988605 conf/chi/2020a db/conf/chi/chi2020a.html#KirmanLL20 Robb Mitchell Enrique Encinas Ben Kirman Social Icebreakers Everywhere: A Day In The Life. 2020 ECSCW https://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2020_ep09 conf/ecscw/2020 db/conf/ecscw/ecscw2020.html#MitchellEK20 Oliver Bates Carolynne Lord Hayley Alter Ben Kirman Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. 227-235 2020 ICT4S https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 conf/ict4s/2020 db/conf/ict4s/ict4s2020.html#BatesLAK20 Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis Sagarika Patra Simon Demediuk Justus Robertson Oluseyi Olarewaju Marian Ursu Ben Kirman Jonathan Hook Florian Block Anders Drachen WARDS: Modelling the Worth of Vision in MOBA's. 63-81 2020 SAI (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52246-9_5 conf/sai/2020-2 db/conf/sai/sai2020-2.html#ChitayatKPDROUK20 Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis Simon Demediuk Isabelle Nölle Oluseyi Olarewaju Sagarika Patra Justus Robertson Peter York Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat Alistair Coates Daniel Slawson Peter Hughes Nicolas Hardie Ben Kirman Jonathan Hook Anders Drachen Marian Florin Ursu Florian Block DAX: Data-Driven Audience Experiences in Esports. 94-105 2020 IMX https://doi.org/10.1145/3391614.3393659 conf/tvx/2020 db/conf/tvx/imx2020.html#KokkinakisDNOPR20 Oliver Bates Christian Remy 0001 Callum Nash Ben Kirman The future of techno-disruption in gig economy workforces: challenging the dialogue with fictional abstracts. 32:1-32:4 2019 HTTF https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363476 conf/httf/2019 db/conf/httf/httf2019.html#Bates0NK19 Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Imagining the Cool-ag: Or, Freedom Considered Harmful. 41:1-41:4 2019 HTTF https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363485 conf/httf/2019 db/conf/httf/httf2019.html#LinehanK19 Tom Feltwell Shaun W. Lawson Enrique Encinas Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Deborah Maxwell Tom Jenkins Stacey Kuznetsov "Grand Visions" for Post-Capitalist Human-Computer Interaction. 2018 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3170609 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130896162 conf/chi/2018a db/conf/chi/chi2018a.html#FeltwellLELKMJK18 Daniel Pargman Elina Eriksson Rob Comber Ben Kirman Oliver Bates The futures of computing and wisdom. 960-963 2018 NordiCHI https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240265 conf/nordichi/2018 db/conf/nordichi/nordichi2018.html#PargmanECKB18 Ben Kirman Joseph Lindley Mark Blythe Paul Coulton Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan Deborah Maxwell Dan O'Hara Miriam Sturdee Vanessa Thomas Playful Research Fiction: A Fictional Conference. 157-173 2018 Funology, 2nd ed. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_10 series/hci/BlytheM18 db/series/hci/BlytheM18.html#KirmanLBCLLMOST18 Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Reorienting Geolocation Data Through Mischievous Design. 225-240 2018 Funology, 2nd ed. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_14 series/hci/BlytheM18 db/series/hci/BlytheM18.html#KirmanLL18

Tom Feltwell John Vines Karen Salt Mark Blythe Ben Kirman Julie Barnett Phillip Brooker Shaun W. Lawson Counter-Discourse Activism on Social Media: The Case of Challenging "Poverty Porn" Television. 345-385 2017 26 Comput. Support. Cooperative Work. 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9275-z https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59614470 db/journals/cscw/cscw26.html#FeltwellVSBKBBL17

Conor Linehan Ben Kirman MC Hammer Presents: The Hammer of Transformative Nostalgification - Designing for Engagement at Scale. 735-746 2017 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3052753 conf/chi/2017a db/conf/chi/chi2017a.html#LinehanK17 Kiel Long John Vines Selina Jeanne Sutton Phillip Brooker Tom Feltwell Ben Kirman Julie Barnett Shaun W. Lawson "Could You Define That in Bot Terms"?: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit. 3488-3500 2017 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025830 conf/chi/2017 db/conf/chi/chi2017.html#LongVSBFKBL17 Derek Foster Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson The role of social media in artisanal production: a case of craft beer. 184-193 2017 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/3131085.3131117 conf/mindtrek/2017 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2017.html#FosterKLL17

Kathrin Maria Gerling Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Michael Kalyn Adam Evans Kieran Hicks Creating wheelchair-controlled video games: Challenges and opportunities when involving young people with mobility impairments and game design experts. 64-73 2016 94 Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.08.009 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61971776 db/journals/ijmms/ijmms94.html#GerlingLKKEH16

Shaun W. Lawson Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Power, participation, and the dog internet. 37-41 2016 23 Interactions 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/2942442 db/journals/interactions/interactions23.html#LawsonKL16

Conor Linehan Sabine Harrer Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Marcus Carter Games Against Health: A Player-Centered Design Philosophy. 589-600 2015 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732514 conf/chi/2015a db/conf/chi/chi2015a.html#LinehanHKLC15 Shaun W. Lawson Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Tom Feltwell Lisa Hopkins Problematising Upstream Technology through Speculative Design: The Case of Quantified Cats and Dogs. 2663-2672 2015 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702260 conf/chi/2015 db/conf/chi/chi2015.html#LawsonKLFH15 Alexandra Samper-Martínez Kathrin Maria Gerling Ercilia García-Álvarez Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson "After All the Time I Put Into This": Co-Creation and the End-of-life of Social Network Games. 135-140 2015 CHI PLAY https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2793140 conf/chiplay/2015 db/conf/chiplay/chiplay2015.html#Samper-Martinez15 Kieran Hicks Kathrin Maria Gerling Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Patrick Dickinson Exploring Twitter as a Game Platform; Strategies and Opportunities for Microblogging-based Games. 151-161 2015 CHI PLAY https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2793119 conf/chiplay/2015 db/conf/chiplay/chiplay2015.html#HicksGKLD15 James Brown Kathrin Maria Gerling Patrick Dickinson Ben Kirman Dead Fun: Uncomfortable Interactions in a Virtual Reality Game for Coffins. 475-480 2015 CHI PLAY https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810307 conf/chiplay/2015 db/conf/chiplay/chiplay2015.html#BrownGDK15 Tom Feltwell Grzegorz Cielniak Patrick Dickinson Ben J. Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Dendrogram Visualization as a Game Design Tool. 505-510 2015 CHI PLAY https://doi.org/10.1145/2793107.2810284 conf/chiplay/2015 db/conf/chiplay/chiplay2015.html#FeltwellCDKL15 Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Stuart Reeves Mark Blythe Theresa Jean Tanenbaum Audrey Desjardins Ron Wakkary Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futures. 45-48 2014 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560472 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559489 conf/chi/2014a db/conf/chi/chi2014a.html#LinehanKRBTDW14 Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Never mind the bollocks, i wanna be anarCHI: a manifesto for punk HCI. 741-748 2014 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2578880 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105007997 conf/chi/2014a db/conf/chi/chi2014a.html#LinehanK14 Laura Buttrick Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Dan O'Hara Fifty shades of CHI: the perverse and humiliating human-computer relationship. 825-834 2014 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2578874 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130987984 conf/chi/2014a db/conf/chi/chi2014a.html#ButtrickLKO14 Conor Linehan George Bellord Ben Kirman Zachary H. Morford Bryan Roche Learning curves: analysing pace and challenge in four successful puzzle games. 181-190 2014 CHI PLAY https://doi.org/10.1145/2658537.2658695 conf/chiplay/2014 db/conf/chiplay/chiplay2014.html#LinehanBKMR14 Conor Linehan Nick Bull Ben Kirman BOLLOCKS!! Designing Pervasive Games That Play with the Social Rules of Built Environments. 123-137 2013 Advances in Computer Entertainment https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_9 conf/ACMace/2013 db/conf/ACMace/ace2013.html#LinehanBK13 Sean Oxspring Ben Kirman Olivier Szymanezyk Attack on the Clones: Managing Player Perceptions of Visual Variety and Believability in Video Game Crowds. 356-367 2013 Advances in Computer Entertainment https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_26 conf/ACMace/2013 db/conf/ACMace/ace2013.html#OxspringKS13 Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Dan O'Hara CHI and the future robot enslavement of humankind: a retrospective. 2199-2208 2013 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468740 conf/chi/2013a db/conf/chi/chi2013a.html#KirmanLLO13

Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Blowtooth: a provocative pervasive game for smuggling virtual drugs through real airport security. 767-775 2012 16 Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-011-0423-z db/journals/puc/puc16.html#KirmanLL12

Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Exploring mischief and mayhem in social computing or: how we learned to stop worrying and love the trolls. 121-130 2012 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212790 conf/chi/2012a db/conf/chi/chi2012a.html#KirmanLL12 Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Get lost: facilitating serendipitous exploration in location-sharing services. 2303-2308 2012 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223793 conf/chi/2012a db/conf/chi/chi2012a.html#KirmanLL12a Ben Kirman Playful networks : measuring, analysing and understanding the social effects of game design. 2011 University of Lincoln, UK http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/15079/ https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625105 British Library, EThOS Ben Kirman Staffan Björk Sebastian Deterding Janne Paavilainen Valentina Rao Social game studies at CHI 2011. 17-20 2011 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979590 conf/chi/2011a db/conf/chi/chi2011a.html#KirmanBDPR11 Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Gail Chan Practical, appropriate, empirically-validated guidelines for designing educational games. 1979-1988 2011 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979229 conf/chi/2011 db/conf/chi/chi2011.html#LinehanKLC11 Derek Foster Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Ben Kirman Power ballads: deploying aversive energy feedback in social media. 2221-2226 2011 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979944 conf/chi/2011a db/conf/chi/chi2011a.html#FosterLLK11 Ben Kirman Francesco Collova Fabrizio Davide Eva Ferrari Jonathan Freeman Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan Niklas Ravaja Social Architecture and the Emergence of Power Laws in Online Social Games. 2011 DiGRA Conference https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/556 conf/digra/2011 db/conf/digra/digra2011.html#KirmanCDFFLLR11 Derek Foster Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Daniel Mills Sarah Ellis Helen Zulch "I Can Haz Emoshuns?"-Understanding Anthropomorphosis of Cats among Internet Users. 712-715 2011 SocialCom/PASSAT https://doi.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.154 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.154 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59293200 conf/socialcom/2011 db/conf/socialcom/socialcom2011.html#FosterKLLMEZ11 Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan Francesco Martino Luciano Gamberini Andrea Gaggioli Improving social game engagement on facebook through enhanced socio-contextual information. 1753-1756 2010 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753589 conf/chi/2010 db/conf/chi/chi2010.html#KirmanLLMGG10 Ben Kirman Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Derek Foster Mark Doughty There's a monster in my kitchen: using aversive feedback to motivate behaviour change. 2685-2694 2010 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753852 conf/chi/2010a db/conf/chi/chi2010a.html#KirmanLLFD10 Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Mark Doughty Blowtooth: pervasive gaming in unique and challenging environments. 2695-2704 2010 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753853 conf/chi/2010a db/conf/chi/chi2010a.html#LinehanKLD10 Conor Linehan Mark Doughty Shaun W. Lawson Ben Kirman Patrick Olivier Paula Moynihan Tagliatelle: social tagging to encourage healthier eating. 3331-3336 2010 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753980 conf/chi/2010a db/conf/chi/chi2010a.html#LinehanDLKOM10 Ben Kirman Emergence and playfulness in social games. 71-77 2010 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/1930488.1930504 conf/mindtrek/2010 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2010.html#Kirman10 Derek Foster Conor Linehan Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Gary James Motivating physical activity at work: using persuasive social media for competitive step counting. 111-116 2010 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/1930488.1930510 conf/mindtrek/2010 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2010.html#FosterLKLJ10 Ben Kirman Eva Ferrari Shaun W. Lawson Jonathan Freeman Jane Lessiter Conor Linehan Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience. 157-164 2009 Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology https://doi.org/10.1145/1690388.1690415 conf/ACMace/2009 db/conf/ACMace/ace2009.html#KirmanFLFLL09 Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan Gaming On and Off the Social Graph: The Social Structure of Facebook Games. 627-632 2009 CSE (4) https://doi.org/10.1109/CSE.2009.266 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSE.2009.266 conf/cse/2009 db/conf/cse/cse2009-4.html#KirmanLL09 Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Hardcore Classification: Identifying Play Styles in Social Games Using Network Analysis. 246-251 2009 ICEC https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_28 conf/iwec/2009 db/conf/iwec/icec2009.html#KirmanL09 Conor Linehan Shaun W. Lawson Mark Doughty Ben Kirman Developing a serious game to evaluate and train group decision making skills. 106-113 2009 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/1621841.1621861 conf/mindtrek/2009 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2009.html#LinehanLDK09 Ben Kirman Shaun W. Lawson Conor Linehan Mario, Luigi and Dave: the effect of language on the social structure of a bilingual online mobile game. 170-175 2009 MindTrek https://doi.org/10.1145/1621841.1621872 conf/mindtrek/2009 db/conf/mindtrek/mindtrek2009.html#KirmanLL09 Ben Kirman Duncan Rowland Socially respectful enjoyment tracking for tabletop games. 3393-3398 2008 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358863 conf/chi/2008a db/conf/chi/chi2008a.html#KirmanR08 Sean Casey Ben Kirman Duncan Rowland The gopher game: a social, mobile, locative game with user generated content and peer review. 9-16 2007 conf/ACMace/2007 Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology https://doi.org/10.1145/1255047.1255050 db/conf/ACMace/ace2007.html#CaseyKR07 Hayley Alter Julie Barnett Oliver Bates George Bellord Staffan Björk Florian Block Mark Blythe Phillip Brooker James Brown Nick Bull Laura Buttrick Marcus Carter Sean Casey Gail Chan Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat Grzegorz Cielniak Alistair Coates Francesco Collova Rob Comber Michelangelo Conserva Paul Coulton Fabrizio Davide Simon Demediuk Audrey Desjardins Sebastian Deterding Patrick Dickinson Mark Doughty Anders Drachen Sarah Ellis Enrique EncinasEnrique "Kin" Encinas Elina Eriksson Adam Evans Tom Feltwell Eva Ferrari Charline Foch Derek Foster Jonathan Freeman Adrian Friday Andrea Gaggioli Luciano Gamberini Ercilia García-Álvarez Kathrin Maria Gerling Nicolas Hardie Sabine Harrer Kieran Hicks Jonathan Hook Lisa Hopkins Peter Hughes Gary James Tom Jenkins Michael Kalyn Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis Stacey Kuznetsov Shaun W. Lawson Jane Lessiter Diego Perez LiebanaDiego Pérez-Liébana Joseph Lindley Conor Linehan Daniel Lock Kiel Long Carolynne Lord Francesco Martino Deborah Maxwell Daniel Mills Robb Mitchell Zachary H. Morford Paula Moynihan Alvaro Caceres Munoz Callum Nash Isabelle Nölle Dan O'Hara Oluseyi Olarewaju Patrick Olivier Sean Oxspring Janne Paavilainen Daniel Pargman Sagarika Patra Valentina Rao Niklas Ravaja Stuart Reeves Christian Remy 0001 Justus Robertson Bryan Roche Duncan Rowland Karen Salt Alexandra Samper-Martínez Daniel Slawson Miriam Sturdee Selina Jeanne Sutton Olivier Szymanezyk Tess TanenbaumTheresa Jean Tanenbaum Ziao Tang Vanessa Thomas Marko Tot Marian Florin UrsuMarian Ursu John Vines Ron Wakkary Peter York Helen Zulch