Research Interest

I am interested in the process of self-expression and relationship building within digital media. These include the study of the influence of avatars, and their creation, on the players and their relationships in video games. In the future, I plan to extend this research on Parasocial Relationships to other digital spaces, such as social media.

Awards

• 2021 CHI PLAY Honorable Mentions Award
• 2019 CHI PLAY Honorable Mentions Award

Publications

Conference Proceedings

2019

• Bopp, J. A., Müller, L. J., Aeschbach, L. F., Opwis, K., & Mekler, E. D. (2019). Exploring Emotional Attachment to Game Characters. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 313–324. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311350.3347169 Honorable Mentions (top 5 %)

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    title = {Exploring Emotional Attachment to Game Characters},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play},
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Journal Articles

2023

• Aeschbach, L. F., Kayser, D., Hüsler, A. B. D. C., Opwis, K., & Brühlmann, F. (2023). The psychology of esports players’ ELO Hell: Motivated bias in League of Legends and its impact on players’ overestimation of skill. Computers in Human Behavior, 107828. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107828

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    title = {The psychology of esports players’ ELO Hell: Motivated bias in League of Legends and its impact on players’ overestimation of skill},
    journal = {Computers in Human Behavior},
    pages = {107828},
    year = {2023},
    issn = {0747-5632},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107828},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563223001796},
    author = {Aeschbach, Lena Fanya and Kayser, Dominik and Hüsler, Antony Berbert De Castro and Opwis, Klaus and Brühlmann, Florian},
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2022

• Aeschbach, L. F., Opwis, K., & Brühlmann, F. (2022). Breaking immersion: A theoretical framework of alienated play to facilitate critical reflection on interactive media. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.846490

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    author = {Aeschbach, Lena Fanya and Opwis, Klaus and Brühlmann, Florian},
    title = {Breaking immersion: A theoretical framework of alienated play to facilitate critical reflection on interactive media},
    journal = {Frontiers in Virtual Reality},
    volume = {3},
    year = {2022},
    url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.846490},
    doi = {10.3389/frvir.2022.846490},
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2021

• Aeschbach, L. F., Perrig, S. A. C., Weder, L., Opwis, K., & Brühlmann, F. (2021). Transparency in Measurement Reporting: A Systematic Literature Review of CHI PLAY. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 5(CHI PLAY). https://doi.org/10.1145/3474660 Honorable Mentions (top 5 %)

  @article{10.1145/3474660,
    author = {Aeschbach, Lena Fanya and Perrig, Sebastian A.C. and Weder, Lorena and Opwis, Klaus and Brühlmann, Florian},
    title = {Transparency in Measurement Reporting: A Systematic Literature Review of CHI PLAY},
    year = {2021},
    issue_date = {September 2021},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    volume = {5},
    number = {CHI PLAY},
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    doi = {10.1145/3474660},
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    month = oct,
    articleno = {233},
    numpages = {21},
    keywords = {open science, measurement, survey, methodology, literature review, validity, transparency},
    note = {Honorable Mentions (top 5 \%)}
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2020

• Brühlmann, F., Petralito, S., Aeschbach, L. F., & Opwis, K. (2020). The quality of data collected online: An investigation of careless responding in a crowdsourced sample. Methods in Psychology, 2, 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2020.100022

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    journal = {Methods in Psychology},
    volume = {2},
    pages = {100022},
    year = {2020},
    issn = {2590-2601},
    doi = {10.1016/j.metip.2020.100022},
    url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260120300096},
    author = {Brühlmann, Florian and Petralito, Serge and Aeschbach, Lena F. and Opwis, Klaus},
    keywords = {Careless responding, Crowdsourcing, Survey, Response patterns, Inattentive responding, Open answer, Latent profile analysis}
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• Brühlmann, F., Petralito, S., Rieser, D. C., Aeschbach, L. F., & Opwis, K. (2020). TrustDiff: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential for User Trust on the Web. Journal of Usability Studies, 16(1), 29–48. https://uxpajournal.org/trustdiff-semantic-differential-for-user-trust-web/

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    journal = {Journal of Usability Studies},
    volume = {16},
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    pages = {29--48},
    year = {2020},
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• Buttrick, N. R., Aczel, B., Aeschbach, L. F., Bakos, B. E., Brühlmann, F., Claypool, H. M., Hüffmeier, J., Kovacs, M., Schuepfer, K., Szecsi, P., Szuts, A., Szöke, O., Thomae, M., Torka, A.-K., Walker, R. J., & Wood, M. J. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Vohs and Schooler (2008), Experiment 1. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 0(0), 2515245920917931. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920917931

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• Ebersole, C. R., Mathur, M. B., Baranski, E., Bart-Plange, D.-J., Buttrick, N. R., Chartier, C. R., Corker, K. S., Corley, M., Hartshorne, J. K., IJzerman, H., Lazarevic, L. B., Rabagliati, H., Ropovik, I., Aczel, B., Aeschbach, L. F., Andrighetto, L., Arnal, J. D., Arrow, H., Babincak, P., … Nosek, B. A. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 0(0), 2515245920958687. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920958687

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masterthesis

2019

• Aeschbach, L. (2019). Dating start! Identification facilitates relatedness to non-player characters.

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