Alena Denisova

According to our database, Alena Denisova authored at least 30 papers between 2015 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2024

Playing Through Tough Times: Exploring the Relationship between Game Aspects and Coping Strategies during Difficult Life Challenges.

Sahar Mirhadi, Ioanna Iacovides, Alena Denisova

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2024

PACMHCI V8, CHI PLAY, October 2024 Editorial.

Regan L. Mandryk, Alena Denisova, Julian Frommel, Kathrin Gerling

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2024

Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers.

Alena Denisova, Steve Bromley, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Elisa D. Mekler

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2024

From Pixels to Play: Opportunities and Challenges of a Diverse and Democratized Games Industry.

Sebastian Long, Alena Denisova, Pejman Mirza-Babaei

Interactions, 2024

The Basic Needs in Games Scale (BANGS): A new tool for investigating positive and negative video game experiences.

Nick Ballou, Alena Denisova, Richard M. Ryan, C. Scott Rigby, Sebastian Deterding

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2024

"It's a terrible choice to make but also a necessary one": Exploring player experiences with moral decision making mechanics in video games.

Sophie Wright, Alena Denisova

Comput. Hum. Behav., 2024

Session details: Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games.

Tom Cole, Alena Denisova, Jo Iacovides

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

Evaluating Interactive AI: Understanding and Controlling Placebo Effects in Human-AI Interaction.

Steeven Villa, Robin Welsch, Alena Denisova, Thomas Kosch

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Games and Play SIG: Connecting Games Research to the Broader HCI Context.

Regan L. Mandryk, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Alena Denisova, Guo Freeman, Daniel Johnson

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

Keep Calm and Aim for the Head: Biofeedback-Controlled Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a Horror Game.

Paraschos Moschovitis, Alena Denisova

IEEE Trans. Games, September, 2023

Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools.

Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games.

Antonios Liapis, Alena Denisova

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

ChallengeDetect: Investigating the Potential of Detecting In-Game Challenge Experience from Physiological Measures.

Xiaolan Peng, Xurong Xie, Jin Huang, Chutian Jiang, Haonian Wang, Alena Denisova, Hui Chen, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Comparing Measures of Perceived Challenge and Demand in Video Games: Exploring the Conceptual Dimensions of CORGIS and VGDS.

Alex Flint, Alena Denisova, Nick D. Bowman

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2022

P-Lite: A study of parallel coordinate plot literacy.

Elif E. Firat, Alena Denisova, Max L. Wilson, Robert S. Laramee

Vis. Informatics, 2022

The Effects of a Soundtrack on Board Game Player Experience.

Timea Farkas, Alena Denisova, Sarah Wiseman, Rebecca Fiebrink

Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

2021

"Whatever the Emotional Experience, It's Up to Them": Insights from Designers of Emotionally Impactful Games.

Alena Denisova, Julia Ayumi Bopp, Thuy Duong Nguyen, Elisa D. Mekler

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Measuring perceived challenge in digital games: Development & validation of the challenge originating from recent gameplay interaction scale (CORGIS).

Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns, Christian Guckelsberger, David Zendle

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2020

Treemap Literacy: A Classroom-Based Investigation.

Elif E. Firat, Alena Denisova, Robert S. Laramee

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, 2020

A Palette of Deepened Emotions: Exploring Emotional Challenge in Virtual Reality Games.

Xiaolan Peng, Jin Huang, Alena Denisova, Hui Chen, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Lost at the Edge of Uncertainty: Measuring Player Uncertainty in Digital Games.

Christopher Power, Paul A. Cairns, Alena Denisova, Themis Papaioannou, Ruth Gultom

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019

Player experience and deceptive expectations of difficulty adaptation in digital games.

Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns

Entertain. Comput., 2019

Power-Ups in Digital Games: The Rewarding Effect of Phantom Game Elements on Player Experience.

Alena Denisova, Eliott Cook

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2019

2017

The Effect of Time Manipulation on Immersion in Digital Games.

Mohd Hafiz Abd Rahman, A. Imran Nordin, Alena Denisova

Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Informatics, 2017

Measuring Uncertainty in Games: Design and Preliminary Validation.

Christopher Power, Alena Denisova, Themis Papaioannou, Paul A. Cairns

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

Challenge in Digital Games: Towards Developing a Measurement Tool.

Alena Denisova, Christian Guckelsberger, David Zendle

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016

The Convergence of Player Experience Questionnaires.

Alena Denisova, A. Imran Nordin, Paul A. Cairns

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2016

2015

Adaptation in Digital Games: The Effect of Challenge Adjustment on Player Performance and Experience.

Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

The Placebo Effect in Digital Games: Phantom Perception of Adaptive Artificial Intelligence.

Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2015

First Person vs. Third Person Perspective in Digital Games: Do Player Preferences Affect Immersion?

Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015