@article{0df13f4e7523407f81c086fd6a4c9d51,
title = "Emotions in social computer games: Relations with bullying, aggression, and school belonging",
abstract = "This article explores the set of emotions expressed by middle school youth (n = 96) when participating in a social computer game. In this article, we present the design of the game, the instruments used to assess bullying in the physical world, and the analysis of the emotions expressed during gameplay and their association with aggressive behaviors. Participants completed surveys on bullying experiences prior to playing the game. The game required participants to form teams and answer two sets of trivia questions, in competitive and cooperative stages. Results show a relation between the roles that participants have in their physical social environment and how they play the virtual game, in terms of the type of emotions they display.",
keywords = "Bullying, Computer Games, Cyberbullying, Emotions, Virtual Game",
author = "Mancilla-Caceres, {Juan F.} and Dorothy Espelage and Eyal Amir",
note = "Funding Information: Supported in part by NSF (IIS) grant 09-17123-RI: Scaling Up Inference in Dynamic Systems with Logical Structure, and NSF IIS grant 09-68552-SoCS: Analyzing Partially Observable Computer-Adolescent Networks. Funding Information: Eyal Amir, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), co-Founding CEO and CDS of Parknav, and a data-science consultant. His academic research focuses on combining AI and Machine Learning, specifically knowledge representation for computational reasoning, learning, and decision making. He received tenure and Associate Professor at UIUC in 2009, after joining UIUC in 2004. In Parknav Eyal lead the machine learning effort and the business efforts. In his consulting activities he helps companies predict marketing and sales. Prior to these, Eyal was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He is the co-author of more than 100 scientific peer-reviewed papers. Eyal is a recipient of a number of awards for his academic research. Among those, he was chosen by IEEE as one of the “10 to watch in AI” (2006), received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and awarded the Arthur L. Samuel award for best Computer Science Ph.D. thesis (2001-2002) at Stanford University. He is the proud father of a 5-years old, and lives in San Francisco, CA and Munich, Germany. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2014, IGI Global.",
year = "2014",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4018/ijgcms.2014070104",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
pages = "50--67",
journal = "International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations",
issn = "1942-3888",
publisher = "IGI Global Publishing",
number = "3",
}