Abstract
As more viewers become interested in watching authentic personalities as opposed to artificial, crafted performances, Twitch streamers have begun to discuss personal issues such as mental health to form a closer bond with their community. This paper seeks to further explore how a live streamer's choice in game affects their viewers' perception of their stream's content. We interviewed 24 Twitch viewers and found that the pace of the game a streamer chooses to stream is a key factor in what viewers expect to see during the stream. These expectations at least partially determine whether viewers want to hear conversations about mental health.
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Lamastra, N., Uttarapong, J., Gandhi, R., Cook, C. L., & Wohn, D. Y. (2020). How a live streamer’s choice in played game affects mental health conversations. In CHI PLAY 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 297–300). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419894
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