Emotionally Challenging Games Can Satisfy Older Adults' Psychological Needs: From Empirical Study to Design Guidelines

要旨

Older adults often struggle to meet their psychological needs due to retirement and living alone. Recent studies suggest that games featuring emotional challenge (EC) can help fulfill basic psychological needs such as autonomy, competence, and relatedness by facilitating emotional exploration. However, it remains unclear whether older adults can benefit from EC games, whether they find this genre enjoyable, and how these games should be designed to better meet their needs. This work explores older adults’ experiences and perceptions of playing EC games through two studies. The first study involved playing Detroit: Become Human, revealing that older adults derived multifaceted psychological experiences from playing the game. The second study involved a custom-designed game scenario tailored to older adults, demonstrating that meaningful choices significantly influenced autonomy need satisfaction. Based on these findings, we offer five design guidelines for developing EC games that satisfy psychological needs of older adults.

著者
Min Zhou
Institute of Software, Chinese, Beijing, China
Xiaolan Peng
Institute of software,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, -Select-, China
Binjie Liu
Institue of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Alena Denisova
University of York, York, United Kingdom
Soumya C. Barathi
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Zhuying Li
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Xurong Xie
Institue of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jin Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Feng Tian
Institute of software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713899

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713899

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Designs for Aging and Accessibility

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