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Game Play

Game Play is a scholarly construct within Children's Material Culture that denotes the systematic engagement of children in structured or unstructured recreational activities involving rules, roles, or imaginative scenarios, distinguished by its function in mediating social, cognitive, and cultural development through material artifacts and interactive practices.

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2017–2026

820

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Games, Motivation, and Learning: A Research and Practice Model

Rosemary Garris, Robert H. Ahlers, James E. Driskell · Simulation & Gaming · 2002 · 3.2K citations

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Foundations of Game-Based Learning

Jan L. Plass, Bruce D. Homer, Charles K. Kinzer · Educational Psychologist · 2015 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Man, Play, and Games.

Bennett M. Berger, Roger Caillois, Meyer Barash · American Sociological Review · 1963 · 1.3K citations

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Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study

Douglas A. Gentile, Hyekyung Choo, Albert K. Liau et al. · PEDIATRICS · 2011 · 1.3K citations

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Designing games with a purpose

Luis von Ahn, Laura Dabbish · Communications of the ACM · 2008 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MD
    Mark D. Griffiths

    Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

    16 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. DJ
    Daniel Johnson

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    16 publications · 527 citations

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  3. TB
    Tilde Bekker

    Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

    11 publications · 501 citations

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  4. MG
    Martin Gibbs

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    12 publications · 511 citations

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  5. TB
    Tom Baranowski

    Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    11 publications · 625 citations

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Institutions

1.9K

  1. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    28 h-index

    77 publications

    7.8K citations

  2. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    25 h-index

    47 publications

    3.2K citations

  3. Tampere University

    Tampere, Finland

    23 h-index

    81 publications

    4.6K citations

  4. Eindhoven University of Technology

    Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    22 h-index

    101 publications

    4.7K citations

  5. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    20 h-index

    47 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    19 h-index

    81 publications

    4.5K citations

  7. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    19 h-index

    30 publications

    4.4K citations

  8. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    19 h-index

    62 publications

    8.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Games and Culture

    55 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. Computers in Human Behavior

    29 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Simulation & Gaming

    S&G · 43 publications · 5.7K citations

    23

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  4. Frontiers in Psychology

    23 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking

    23 publications · 2K citations

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