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A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse

In the past decade, online games problematic use such as excessive play and addiction have received tremendous attention not only from the media, but also from psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health associations and gamers alike. To address this issue, game developers have proposed to add warni...

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Main Authors: Ididi, Italumeh O., Hassan , Saadah, Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim, Mohd.Ali, Norhayati
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Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.435512016-07-19T04:16:59Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43551/ A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse Ididi, Italumeh O. Hassan , Saadah Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim Mohd.Ali, Norhayati In the past decade, online games problematic use such as excessive play and addiction have received tremendous attention not only from the media, but also from psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health associations and gamers alike. To address this issue, game developers have proposed to add warning messages about risk of overuse on the loading screens of certain online games. However, there is yet no evidence that such warning messages have made any serious impact on gamers. The current game design issues, proposed control measures against game overuse and game design frameworks were carefully examined. The objective of this paper is to propose a Counselling Attributes (CA) framework that will address the problematic and addictiveness of online games by adopting streaming counselling/warning messages at every 2 minutes in game design. This approach will increase the awareness of the problems online games possess more closely to gamers. As a result, excessive play, addiction and number of hours spent playing online games will drastically reduce. Penerbit UTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43551/1/A%20proposed%20counselling%20attribute%20framework%20against%20game%20overuse.pdf Ididi, Italumeh O. and Hassan , Saadah and Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim and Mohd.Ali, Norhayati (2015) A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse. Jurnal Teknologi, 77 (13). pp. 29-35. ISSN 0127–9696; ESSN: 2180–3722 http://www.jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/viewFile/6357/4182 10.11113/jt.v77.6357
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description In the past decade, online games problematic use such as excessive play and addiction have received tremendous attention not only from the media, but also from psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health associations and gamers alike. To address this issue, game developers have proposed to add warning messages about risk of overuse on the loading screens of certain online games. However, there is yet no evidence that such warning messages have made any serious impact on gamers. The current game design issues, proposed control measures against game overuse and game design frameworks were carefully examined. The objective of this paper is to propose a Counselling Attributes (CA) framework that will address the problematic and addictiveness of online games by adopting streaming counselling/warning messages at every 2 minutes in game design. This approach will increase the awareness of the problems online games possess more closely to gamers. As a result, excessive play, addiction and number of hours spent playing online games will drastically reduce.
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author Ididi, Italumeh O.
Hassan , Saadah
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Mohd.Ali, Norhayati
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Hassan , Saadah
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Mohd.Ali, Norhayati
A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
author_facet Ididi, Italumeh O.
Hassan , Saadah
Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
Mohd.Ali, Norhayati
author_sort Ididi, Italumeh O.
title A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
title_short A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
title_full A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
title_fullStr A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
title_full_unstemmed A proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
title_sort proposed counseling attribute framework against game overuse
publisher Penerbit UTM Press
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43551/1/A%20proposed%20counselling%20attribute%20framework%20against%20game%20overuse.pdf
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http://www.jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/viewFile/6357/4182
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