遊戲情境中之生理回饋與心流經驗

Abstract

本研究旨在探討生理回饋於遊戲情境歷程中，玩家心流狀態的關係。本研究採單一受試者實驗研究法，以33位小學六年級學童為研究樣本，進行為期四週的單機電腦遊戲關卡挑戰活動，活動中全程以Webcam紀錄學童臉部表情及眨眼資訊，遊戲預埋資料收集引擎，收集受試者滑鼠點擊資訊。遊戲結束後以心流狀態量表及心流歷程量表測量學童於遊戲情境中的心流表現。 根據實驗結果分析發現：（1）各生理回饋，皆與心流狀態各構面具高度顯著相關。（2）於容易關卡中，臉部表情與滑鼠點擊較具有預測心流能力。（3）於困難關卡中，生理回饋「眨眼」、「臉部表情」、「滑鼠控制」皆具有預測心流能力。（4）不同生理回饋對心流預測能力不同，其中以滑鼠點擊控制構面最為穩定。困難遊戲中，眨眼專注生理回饋有較好的預測能力；反之，於容易關卡中，臉部表情則有不錯的預測效果。

The purpose of this study is to investigate the biofeedback on the relation between the game and players’ flow experience. A single subject experimental design is adopted for this study involving 33 sixth-grade primary school students are invited to participate in the study. The study was implemented with stand-alone computer games hurdles challenge activities for four weeks. The activity using webcam in the entire process records children’s facial expressions and the blink of eyes information. The game embedded data collection engine receives the mouse click information of subjects. After the end of the activity, we perform flow experience questionnaires survey to measure children’s flow performance in the game play. According to the experimental results analysis, we discover the followings:(1) the biofeedback when students are playing the games has a high correlation with the flow process state. (2) during the easy case, facial expressions and mouse clicks have more ability to predict flow. (3) during the difficult case, blink of eyes, facial expression and mouse click are predictable capacity of flow. (4) different dimension of biofeedback on the ability of different flow forecast, mouse click is the most stable dimension of biofeedback. During the difficult game, the blink of eyes focused biofeedback a better ability to forecast flow, in the easy game, facial expressions are good prediction inversely.