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Capturing Entertainment Through Heart Rate Dynamics in the Playware Playground

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Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006 (ICEC 2006)

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This paper introduces a statistical approach for capturing enter-tainment in real-time through physiological signals within interactive playgrounds inspired by computer games. For this purpose children’s heart rate (HR) signals and judgement on entertainment are obtained from experiments on the innovative Playware playground. A comprehensive statistical analysis shows that children’s notion of entertainment correlates highly with their average HR during the game.

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  1. Maersk Institute for Production Technology, University of Southern, Denmark

    Georgios N. Yannakakis, John Hallam & Henrik Hautop Lund

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  1. Georgios N. Yannakakis
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  1. Microsoft Research Cambridge, Socio-Digital Systems, 7 J.J: Thomson Ave, CB3 OFB, Cambridge, UK

    Richard Harper

  2. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  3. Microsoft Research Cambridge UK, Roger Needham Building , 7 J J Thomson Ave, CB3 0FB, Cambridge, UK

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Yannakakis, G.N., Hallam, J., Lund, H.H. (2006). Capturing Entertainment Through Heart Rate Dynamics in the Playware Playground. In: Harper, R., Rauterberg, M., Combetto, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006. ICEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_40

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_40

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-45259-1

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