Signal-Driven Pervasive Game Design: The LifeSync-Games Framework as a Player Experience Integration Layer

📅 2026-09-02
📈 Citations: 0
Influential: 0
📄 PDF
🤖 AI Summary
本文提出LifeSync-Games框架,通过整合玩家生理和认知状态信号来改进无处不在的游戏体验,采用游戏化方法和技术,基于自我决定论和流理论设计。
📝 Abstract
Pervasive games extend the magic circle across spatial, temporal, and social dimensions, yet treat the player's physiological and cognitive state as a passive receptor rather than an active signal. This paper presents LifeSync-Games (LSG), a framework that (unlike proposals treating player signals as an additional dimension), operationalizes them as a Player Experience Integration Layer (PEIL) acting transversally across the three existing pervasive dimensions through verified real-world signals: physical activity, sleep quality, memory, and decision speed. The framework introduces a gamified integration artifact (the LSG portal) that mediates the real <-> virtual exchange through redeemable points, real-world missions, and structural gamification. Five HCI design principles grounded in Self-Determination Theory and Flow Theory are proposed, instantiated across six commercial video games, together with a study protocol (n = 70-80 participants, quasi-experimental design). This paper reports the design stage of LSG: rule thresholds and portal parameters are design decisions pending empirical calibration; no data collection has yet been conducted. The main contribution is a theoretically grounded framework and validation protocol positioning player-sensitive integration as the mechanism enabling pervasive games to respond to the player's actual biological and cognitive state.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Pervasive Games
Player Experience Integration Layer
Physiological and Cognitive State
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Player Experience Integration Layer
Physiological and Cognitive Signals
Gamified Integration Artifact
Self-Determination Theory
Flow Theory
🔎 Similar Papers
No similar papers found.
💼 Related Jobs
No related jobs found.
J
J. Macías-Cáceres
Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile
F
F. Gutiérrez-Vela
Universidad de Granada (UGR), Granada, España
P
P. Paderewski-Rodriguez
Universidad de Granada (UGR), Granada, España
R
R. González-Ibáñez
Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile