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YOU? · · 2025 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17723270

Data was collected from participants play-testing a game procotype called COLTAG. Participants could choose one or two emotions from: Engagement, frustration, boredom, confusion, and neutral.Selected emotions were ordered alphabethecally and stored in seperate columns. Dataset Data points Description Clicks 28660 Mouse events, mouse button pressed and released. Includes pixel coordinates. Events 4078 Game events: Survey points, drag-and-drop interaction. Interventions 100 Experimenter notes on interventions like hints and help given. MiniPXI 32* Results from MiniPXI including birth year and gender. Sessions 40 Session meta data, start time, software version and last commit for prototype. Surveys 747 Submitted survey points, featuring one or two emotions ordered alphabetically. * Eight survey points were lost due to a telemetry bug.

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