Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition

Gaming is a domain of profound skill development. Players’ digital traces create data that track the development from novice to expert levels. We argue existing work, although promising, has yet take advantage potential game for understanding acquisition, and realize this potential, future studies can use fit formal learning curves individual as theoretical anchor. Learning-curve analysis allows rate, initial performance, asymptotic performance be separated out, so serve tool reconciling multiple factors may affect learning. review research on using games, showing how such work confirm, challenge, extend claims about psychology expertise. provides foundation direct experiments development, which are necessary cross-domain cognitive theory skill. conclude by making recommendations for, noting obstacles to, experimental in games.