Dechant, Martin Johannes; Welsch, Robin; Frommel, Julian; Mandryk, Regan L; (2022) (Don’t) stand by me: How trait psychopathy and NPC emotion influence player perceptions, verbal responses, and movement behaviours in a gaming task. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. p. 468). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Abstract

Social interactions are an essential part of many digital games, and provide benefts to players; however, problematic social interactions also lead to harm. To inform our understanding of the origins of harmful social behaviours in gaming contexts, we examine how trait psychopathy infuences player perceptions and behaviours within a gaming task. After measuring participants’ (n=385) traitlevel boldness, meanness, and disinhibition, we expose them to neutral and angry social interactions with a non-player character (NPC) in a gaming task and assess their perceptions, verbal responses, and movement behaviours. Our fndings demonstrate that the traits signifcantly infuence interpretation of NPC emotion, verbal responses to the NPC, and movement behaviours around the NPC. These insights can inform the design of social games and communities and can help designers and researchers better understand how social functioning translates into gaming contexts.

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