Reason and Emotion: How They Drive Students to Play a Color Game

Yong-Ming Huang

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Yong-Ming Huang ¹ ^*

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¹ Department of Multimedia and Entertainment Science, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TAIWAN^* Corresponding Author

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Chromatics has been an important subject in design education since colors can make significant differences in the meanings and values of designed objects. However, only a few studies sought to assist students in learning chromatics, let alone to investigate their views on mobile game-based learning of this subject. To remedy these deficiencies, we firstly developed a color game to help students learn chromatics through color mixing. Then, drawing on reasonable and emotional factors, we designed a research model to investigate the students’ decision-making about the game. After analyzing the feedbacks from a total of 205 students, this study showed that (1) perceived attractiveness was the most significant emotional factor behind the subjects’ intention to play the game; (2) perceived usefulness was a reasonable factor that indirectly influenced the subjects’ intention; (3) perceived enjoyment, as another emotional factor, exerted a significant and direct influence on the subjects’ perceived usefulness. These findings indicated that emotional factors played not only a pivotal role in the subjects’ intention to play the color game but also a leading one in their reasonable response to the game.

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color learning
mobile game
reasonable factor
emotional factor
intention

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2018, 1911-1924

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Huang, Y.-M. (2018). Reason and Emotion: How They Drive Students to Play a Color Game. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(5), pp. 1911-1924. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85490

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Huang, Yong-Ming "Reason and Emotion: How They Drive Students to Play a Color Game". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 5, 2018, pp. 1911-1924. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/85490