As the research progresses I’ve compiled the practice presentation. Thus, I must say that this comes a little too early as I’m currently working more on experimental development submission, and my research didn’t proceed too far since the last time. All I have is case study part with collected data, and I’m not even sure about structure. But I’ll try to make some structure blueprint with this presentation.
As I was advised before I’ve rewritten the research question to make it look more solid and professional. I believe it looks better now as I used approach from BA thesis sessions, where I was adviced to be as specific as possible.
Also this is how my approximate structure looks, where I tried to include the basic minimum of what I need to cover. And just to give viewers some understanding of case study games, I included their brief description.
Of course I’m starting with definitions of flow: from most basic definition by Csikzentmihayi (his definition is the one that is used and modified by the majority of other researchers) to a more specific for videogames by Sweetser and Wyeth, who also happen to be one of the methodology support sources. I’m also including conditions of flow as it’s important to show their development as well, and they are the main criteria of evaluation time mechanics impact on flow.
Next stop is part about time, since it’s the second main topic I’m researching. I’m not very sure about the Gimbel source, if I need that or not here as I’m just stating the type of time in video games, but not sure I’ll use it later.
Igarzabal’s work is one of my major sources on time and anxiety/boredom discussion point, so I definitely need to highlight that in presentation.
This is a very new aspect I’ve recently discovered that will help me to present more firm evidence. I’ve only read it briefly for now, and it’s the point of further research.
Here I just compiled all the information I previously showed on case studies. As I said above, I just have a big amount of data on time frames and their relation to flow conditions. Not much analysis now, still working on it.
And the outcomes. Of course since I don’t have even approximate analysis now, I’m just presenting the very basic now that can be made without much effort.
But overall, at least with the help of this exercise, I have some understanding of future final presentation. I just hope that I won’t need to redo everything from scratch, but it depends on the actual research and analysis I’m have yet to do. To finish, I’m also presenting the video of this presentation: