Epistemological challenges for operationalism in player experience research

Abstract

In this abstract we argue that employing an operationalist epistemology can limit the potential of player experience research. This argument is drawn from modern psychomet rics where a movement questioning fundamental assump tions of classical test theory has been gaining increasing at tention and has been supplying increasing amounts of evi dence in recent years. We argue that these criticisms should be observed and that this could have important questions to player experience research in terms of theory and methods.