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Affective Computing in Games

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Being able to automatically recognize and interpret the affective state of the player can have various benefits in a Serious Game. The difficulty and pace of a learning game could be adapted, or the quality of the interaction between the player and the game could be improved – just to name two examples. This Chapter aims to give an introduction to Affective Computing with the goal of helping developers to incorporate the player’s affective data into the games. Suitable psychological models of emotion and personality are described, and a multitude of sensors as well as methods to recognize affect are discussed in detail. The Chapter ends with a number examples where human affect is utilized in Serious Games.

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This article is the fourth chapter of a book on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and it describes the role of emotion in this context. It gives a motivation of why emotion is important in HCI, and describes methods to measure affect from various sources. The information provided in the article can be applied directly to Serious Games.

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This article is Chap. 34 of a book on Affective Computing. It specifically discusses emotion in the context of games and makes a strong point for the connection between Affective Computing and gaming. Methods to adapt a game to the player’s affect and expressing emotion in a game are described. In the end of the article, a list of open research questions in the field is given.

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This book contains a very thorough review of many aspects of emotion from a psychologist’s point of view. It is currently in its third edition. It describes the psychophysiology, the vocal, and the facial expression of emotion. These concepts form the basis for the automatic recognition of emotion through sensors.

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