Type of Presentation

Poster

Type of Project

Class Project

Presenter 1 Program

EAMS

Presenter 1 Location

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Presenter 2 Program

IMED

Presenter 3 Program

INSC

Project Description

We plan to survey at least 100 students at Harrisburg university, where there is a very large gaming community, about their tendencies towards certain video game genres to collect the necessary categorical data. Separating the data into different genres serves to help our audience better visualize the disparity in representation between men and non-men in these genres and the studies based on them. By demonstrating the disproportion in the number of non-men versus men who play the popularly studied genres, we hope to shed light on how underrepresented non-men are in the video-game research community. We also hope to encourage others to purposefully study these genres so that we may better understand the possible positive and negative effects of video games on non-men

Faculty Member

Akeisha Belgrave

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A Study of Video Game Genre Preference of Male and Non-Male Students at Harrisburg University

We plan to survey at least 100 students at Harrisburg university, where there is a very large gaming community, about their tendencies towards certain video game genres to collect the necessary categorical data. Separating the data into different genres serves to help our audience better visualize the disparity in representation between men and non-men in these genres and the studies based on them. By demonstrating the disproportion in the number of non-men versus men who play the popularly studied genres, we hope to shed light on how underrepresented non-men are in the video-game research community. We also hope to encourage others to purposefully study these genres so that we may better understand the possible positive and negative effects of video games on non-men