1st Edition
User-Centric Studies in Game Translation and Accessibility
This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features.
The volume demonstrates the ways in which audiovisual translation (AVT) and machine accessibility (MA) not only influence the final product but substantively shape the gaming experience. Contributions in the book deliver on this aim in two ways. First, they collectively provide an account of the prospects and challenges that come with user-centric scholarly inquiry in game translation and accessibility. Second, complementarily, they report on original studies and new exciting findings while adopting the perspective of global users. Taken together, the collection serves as a call to action to systematically advance research eliciting variable types of input from users who take advantage of translation and accessibility services. Such research will facilitate a clearer understanding of how particular decisions of translators and other relevant agents shape game reception.
This book will be of interest to scholars in both translation studies and video game research, as well as those interested in media accessibility and media studies more broadly.
Contents
List of Contributors
01. Introduction: A call for user-centric game translation and accessibility studies
Mikołaj Deckert & Krzysztof Hejduk
Part 1: Prospects and challenges
02. The problems with the current taxonomies and definitions used in games studies and possible solutions: terminological unravelling for use in quantitative research on games, gamers and players.
Ugo Ellefsen & Valérie Florentin
03. Exploring research avenues in user-centric studies for minority languages
Itziar Zorrakin-Goikoetxea
04. Eye Tracking in Video Game Localization Player-centric Studies
Dominik Kudła
05. Accessibility as Game Culturalisation
Paul Cairns, Christopher Power & Jen Beeston
Part 2: User-centric studies
06. Unveiling Nuances of Streaming Localized Video Games: The Case of Iranian Gameplay Streams
Saeed Ameri
07. Arabic Mobile Game Localizations: Gamer Profiles, Preferences, and Implications for an Immersive Gaming Experience
Mohammed Al-Batineh
08. Persons with Visual Disabilities Play Too: Gaming Habits and Preferences
María Eugenia Larreina-Morales & Carme Mangiron
09. Assessing personality traits and localisation testing skills through game-based decision-making and error detection
Index
Biography
Mikołaj Deckert is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland.
Krzysztof W. Hejduk is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Lodz, Poland.
