The Effect of Realistic and Fantastical Narrative Context on Perceived Relevance and Self-Efficacy in Serious Games

摘要

This study examined the differences between a game with a realistic narrative context and one with a morefantastical narrative context, in terms of perceived game relevance and game-specific self-efficacy. Userswho played the game with the more realistic narrative exhibited greater perceived relevance and greatergame-specific self-efficacy, in comparison with their counterparts. The more realistic narrative may allowfor the material being learned to be better incorporated into the underlying narrative, thus increasing theperceived relevance of the game overall. The more realistic context may have yielded an increased gamespecificself-efficacy due to the increased feasibility of the actions users undertake in the game. Using Yi &Hwang's (2003) Technology Acceptance Model, we suggest that the increased game relevance and selfefficacythat result from a more realistic context can be used to increase the amount of time users spendusing the learning game.