Affective reactions to playing digital games

Author

Landowska, Agnieszka ; Wrobel, Michal R.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron., Telecommun. & Inf., Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk, Poland

fYear

2015

fDate

25-27 June 2015

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

270

Abstract

The paper presents a study of emotional states during a gameplay. An experiment of two-player Tetris game is reported, followed by the analysis of the results - self-reported emotional states as well as physiological signals measurements interpretation. The study reveals the diversity of emotional reactions and concludes, that a representative player´s emotional model is hard to define. Instead, an adaptive approach to emotion recognition and individualized classifiers seem to be a better solution for affect-aware digital games.

Keywords

computer games; emotion recognition; human factors; pattern classification; affect-aware digital game; affective reaction; digital game playing; emotion recognition; emotional reaction; gameplay; individualized classifier; physiological signal measurement interpretation; player emotional model; self-reported emotional state; two-player Tetris game; Biomedical monitoring; Games; Heart rate; Skin; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; affect-awareness; affective computing; digital games; emotion monitoring; physiological symptoms of emotions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions (HSI), 2015 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2015.7170678

Filename

7170678