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Creating an Emotionally Adaptive Game

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Abstract

To optimize a player’s experience, an emotionally adaptive game continuously adapts its mechanics to the player’s emotional state, measured in terms of emotion-data. This paper presents the first of two studies that aim to realize an emotionally adaptive game. It investigates the relations between game mechanics, a player’s emotional state and his/her emotion-data. In an experiment, one game mechanic (speed) was manipulated. Emotional state was self-reported in terms of valence, arousal and boredom-frustration-enjoyment. In addition, a number of (mainly physiology-based) emotion-data features were measured. Correlations were found between the valence/arousal reports and the emotion-data features. In addition, seven emotion-data features were found to distinguish between a boring, frustrating and enjoying game mode. Taken together, these features convey sufficient data to create a first version of an emotionally adaptive game.

Keywords

  • Adaptivity
  • personalization
  • computer games
  • affective loop
  • psychophysiology
  • emotions

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  1. User-System Interaction Program, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O.Box 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Tim Tijs

  2. Philips Research Laboratories Europe, High Tech Campus 34, 5656 AE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Dirk Brokken

  3. Human-Technology Interaction Group, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O.Box 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wijnand IJsselsteijn

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    Shirley J. Saldamarco

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Tijs, T., Brokken, D., IJsselsteijn, W. (2008). Creating an Emotionally Adaptive Game. In: Stevens, S.M., Saldamarco, S.J. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2008. ICEC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5309. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89222-9_14

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